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Title: I Me Mine: The Beatles and Their Pronouns
Post by: peregrine9 on September 03, 2011, 03:52:22 AM
Arts Beat
September 1. 2011
I Me Mine: The Beatles and Their Pronouns

James W. Pennebaker’s new book “The Secret Life of Pronouns,” which I reviewed in The Times Book Review on Sunday, makes it hard to stop thinking about pronouns and the other little “function words” that Mr. Pennebaker, a social psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, sees as “the keys to the soul.” Mr. Pennebaker is admirably omnivorous when it comes to looking for material that will show how these stealthy words — which include articles, prepositions, conjunctions and auxiliary verbs — reflect our social psyche. One of his more unexpected sources is the lyrical canon of the Beatles.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/i-me-mine-the-beatles-and-their-pronouns/ (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/i-me-mine-the-beatles-and-their-pronouns/)