Abstract

Distinctive patterns of language use can be taken to reflect an individual's habits of thought. They can thus prove the biographers key to the inner life of a subject. This article takes E. G. Whitlam, a former Australian Prime Minister, as its subject, and considers the manner in which analysis of his language suggests a resolution of the paradoxes that have baffled previous biographers.

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