How You Say It
How You Say It From "one of the most brilliant young psychologists of her generation" (Paul Bloom), a groundbreaking examination of how speech causes some of our deepest social divides--and how it…
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How You Say It
From "one of the most brilliant young psychologists of her generation" (Paul Bloom), a groundbreaking examination of how speech causes some of our deepest social divides--and how it can help us overcome them.We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. But one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak. Race, class, and gender shape our social identities, and thus who we perceive as "like us" or "not like us".
We can change how we speak to some extent, whether by "code-switching" between dialects or learning a new language; over time, your speech even changes to reflect your evolving social identity and aspirations. As the pioneering psychologist Katherine Kinzler reveals in How You Say It, the way we talk is central to our social identity because our speech largely reflects the voices we heard as children. But for the most part, we are
How You Say It
You Say It First
Can You Say it Too?
Walk it how you talk it
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