Language Attitudes in the Dutch Language Area: An Introduction -- I. DETERMINANTS OF LANGUAGE ATTITUDES -- Language Legislation in Belgium and the Balance of Power in Walloon-Flemish Relationships -- Identity and Projection: The Projected Attitudes of Flemish High School Students in Brussels -- Social Factors and Language Attitudes in Friesland -- Changing Language Attitudes in Education -- The Relative Importance of Pronunciation, Prosody, and Voice Quality for the Attribution of Social Status and Personality Characteristics -- Attitudes towards Regional Variation in Dutch Pronunciation -- II. LANGUAGE ATTITUDES AND LANGUAGE BEHAVIOUR -- Attitudes of Primary School Children and Second Language Proficiency -- Socio-Cultural Factors and Second Language Acquisition of Turkish and Moroccan Children -- The Relationship between Language Attitudes and Language Choice -- Language Attitudes and the Prediction of Dialect Use -- References -- List of Contributors.