Publications

Publication details [#58686]

Graesser, Arthur C., James W. Pennebaker, Moongee Jeon, Ewa Kacewicz and Matthew Davis. 2014. Pronoun Use Reflects Standings in Social Hierarchies. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 33 (2) : 125–143.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

group interaction | hierarchy | natural language | pronoun | social status

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Five studies examine how relative rank is disclosed amid individuals in small groups via their natural pronoun use. Computerized text analyses unveil that natural language use during group interaction indicates that status is connected to attentional tilts, such that higher rank is connected to other-focus whilst lower rank is connected to self-focus.