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+====== Week 2—Pronunciation guides, or Where do you think I’m from? ======
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 **Main reading:** Newman (2002)
-**Other reading:** Ahearn (2021b); Ahearn (2021a); Blommaert (2009); Moore (2011); Silverstein (2022); Thorpe (2015) “People Judge You By the Words You Use”—Self-help is all about making people feel inadequate, so what better slogan for self-improvement could there be (see, e.g., Elster 2016). I would bet that billions of dollars are made by selling people products to “increase their word power” (Flexner 1971; Funk 1968). We know it’s wrong, but in fact it’s hard to avoid feeling judged not just for what you say but how you say it.
+**Other reading:** Ahearn (2021b); Ahearn (2021a); Blommaert (2009); Moore (2011); Silverstein (2022); Thorpe (2015)
+[[:3621:2024:2:slides|Slides for Week 2]]
+“People Judge You By the Words You Use”—Self-help is all about making people feel inadequate, so what better slogan for self-improvement could there be (see, e.g., Elster 2016). I would bet that billions of dollars are made by selling people products to “increase their word power” (Flexner 1971; Funk 1968). We know it’s wrong, but in fact it’s hard to avoid feeling judged not just for what you say but how you say it.
 Why do words have power? What power do they have?