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Linguistics Patterns as a Means of Persuasion - 0 views

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    This article discusses patterns of speech and social aspects that affect the persuasiveness of words.
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The 5 Most Persuasive Words in the English Language - 0 views

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    A study stating and explaining why these 5 words are so persuasive and how people respond to these words.
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Edward Sapir: Speech as a Personality Trait - 0 views

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    How different aspects of speech, such as intonation and dynamics, affect how we perceive other people's personalities
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Catherine Jones on what language reveals about us | Life and style | The Observer - 1 views

  • people unconsciously shift their speech and voice style to more closely match those of people in powerful or authoritative positions
  • Similarly, people who are depressed, suicide-prone or experiencing a traumatic event tend to use "I" more
  • Our words express the metaphors which underpin our thinking, which in turn express who we are, our values and our life experience.
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  • reveal many of their values in the metaphors they use
  • senior management teams to describe what they're like when they're working at their best, they often use competitive, sporting metaphors - "we're like a gold medal-winning team" - because winning is important to them
  • teachers and the metaphors are startlingly different - "it's like tending a garden, or bringing up a family" - because nurturing is an important value for this group
  • tone of voice, the pauses in our speech, the role we take in conversations and our use of fillers - for example, "um" or "you know" - to reach many more conclusions
  • older people tend to refer to themselves less often, use more positive emotion words, more future tense verbs and fewer past tense verbs
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  • fewer emotion words and first person singular pronouns we use, the higher our social class.
  • "Freudian slips"
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    What our speech reveals about us
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