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people unconsciously shift their speech and voice style to more closely match those of people in powerful or authoritative positions
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Similarly, people who are depressed, suicide-prone or experiencing a traumatic event tend to use "I" more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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"Freudian slips"
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