The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us

Reading Level
Grade 9
Time to Read
5 hrs 58 mins

Reading Level

What is the reading level of The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us?

Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us is 8th and 9th grade.

Expert Readability Tests for
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us

Readability Test Reading Level
Flesch Kincaid Scale Grade 9
SMOG Index Grade 11
Coleman Liau Index Grade 10
Dale Chall Readability Score Grade 6

Reading Time

5 hrs 58 mins

How long to read The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us?

The estimated word count of The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us is 89,435 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 5 hrs 58 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 9 hrs 57 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 19 mins.

The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us - 89,435 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 9 hrs 57 mins
Average 250 words/min 5 hrs 58 mins
Fast 450 words/min 3 hrs 19 mins
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us by James W. Pennebaker
Authors
James W. Pennebaker

More about The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us

89,435 words

Word Count

for The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us

360 pages

Pages
Hardcover: 360 pages
Paperback: 368 pages
Kindle: 369 pages

9 hours and 37 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

In The Secret Life of Pronouns, social psychologist and language expert James W. Pennebaker uses his groundbreaking research in computational linguistics-in essence, counting the frequency of words we use-to show that our language carries secrets about our feelings, our self-concept, and our social intelligence. Our most forgettable words, such as pronouns and prepositions, can be the most revealing: their patterns are as distinctive as fingerprints. Using innovative analytic techniques, Pennebaker X-rays everything from John McCain's tweets to the Federalist Papers. Who would have predicted that the high school student who uses too many verbs in her college admissions essay is likely to make lower grades in college? Or that a world leader's use of pronouns could reliably presage whether he will lead his country into war? You'll learn what Lady Gaga and William Butler Yeats have in common, and how Ebenezer Scrooge's syntax hints at his self-deception and repressed emotion in this sprightly, surprising tour of what our words are saying-whether we mean them to or not.