Here’s an animated video featuring my favorite linguist, Steven Pinker.  Pinker discusses the “insights we can get into, thoughts, emotions and social relations from words and how we use them.”
Pinker provides a pychologist’s perspective on something we all know –  talk is autobiographical.  Every story in my book, The Art of Talking Back demonstrates how interviews (debates, hearings and so on)  reveal character. That’s why we love to watch them.