Responses to Language Varieties. Variability, processes and outcomes.

Intro -- Responses to Language Varieties -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- References -- Part I. Theoretical Backgrounds -- Does language regard vary? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The cognitive backgrounds of language regard -- 2.1 Perception -- 2.2 The cycle of production, perception, and regard -- 3. Evidence -- 4. So what? -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- REACT - A constructivist theoretic framework for attitudes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. REACT - Attitudes as evaluation routines in social practices -- 2.1 Relevance: Attitudes are relevance-driven sedimentations in the stock of knowledge -- 2.2 Evaluation: Attitudes are routinized evaluations of life-world phenomena -- 2.3 Activation: Attitudes demand a high level of cognitive activation -- 2.4 Construction: Attitudes are situated (re-)constructions of symbolic meaning -- 2.5 Targeting: Attitudes serve specific targeting functions for the life‑world‑orientation toward goals of action -- 3. Consolidation - a pragmatic constructivist definition of attitude -- References -- Mixing methods in the study of language attitudes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The 'divide' -- and how to conquer it -- 3. A theoretical basis for MM language attitude research -- 4. The qual component: Strategic style-shifting in an Austrian TV discussion -- 5. The quan component: Findings from the speaker evaluation experiment -- 6. Discussion and conclusion(s) -- References -- Part II. Implicit and/or explicit? When are attitudes "authentic"? -- The primary relevance of subconsciously offered attitudes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Denmark: Attitudes towards varieties of Danish -- 2.1 Official hierarchization of varieties -- 2.2 Conscious hierarchization of varieties -- 2.3 Subconscious hierarchization of varieties -- 2.4 Comparison of the evaluative hierarchizations.

3. The Nordic communities: Attitudes towards the influence from English -- 3.1 Official ideology: Purism vs. laissez-faire -- 3.2 Conscious attitudes towards English influence -- 3.3 Subconscious attitudes towards English influence -- 3.4 Comparison of official, conscious, and subconscious attitudes towards the influence from English -- 4. Which attitudinal pattern, if any, is likely to be relevant to the understanding of contemporary changes in the relational strength between Danish varieties? -- 5. Which attitudinal pattern, if any, is likely to be relevant to the understanding of English influence in the Nordic communities? -- 6. Why are language-ideological structures the way they are? -- 6.1 Reflections on the 'why' of official language ideology -- 6.1.1 The Danish case -- 6.1.2 The Nordic case -- 6.2 Reflections on the 'why' of consciously offered attitudes -- 6.2.1 The Danish case -- 6.2.2 The Nordic case -- 6.3 Reflections on the 'why' of subconsciously offered attitudes -- 6.3.1 The Danish case -- 6.3.2 The Nordic case -- 7. Concluding remarks -- References -- Applying the implicit association test to language attitudes research -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Characterizing attitudes -- 1.2 Explaining the cognitive processing of language attitudes -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 Participants -- 2.3 Task procedure -- 2.4 Task 1: Implicit associations test (IAT) -- 2.5 Task 2: Self report 1 -- 2.6 Task 3: Self report 2 -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Explicit results -- 3.2 IAT results -- 3.3 Correlations between IAT results and explicit findings -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- 4.1 Conclusion -- References -- Implicit attitudes and the perception of sociolinguistic variation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The implicit association test -- 3. The event-related potential technique -- 4. Predictions -- 5. Methods -- 5.1 ERP experiment and participants.

5.2 IAT design and procedure -- 5.3 Analysis -- 6. Results -- 6.1 IAT results -- 6.2 ERP results -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Part III. What factors awaken attitudes? -- Got class? Community-shared conceptualizations of social class in evaluative reactions to sociolinguistic variables -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Materials -- 2.3 Procedure -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Perceived foreign accent as a predicator of face-voice match -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Integrating audio and visual cues -- 3. Perceptions of accentedness -- 4. Methods -- 4.1 Visual stimuli -- 4.2 Auditory stimuli -- 4.3 Procedure -- 4.4 Analysis -- 5. Results -- 6. Discussion -- References -- Is Moroccan-flavoured Standard Dutch standard or not? On the use of perceptual criteria to determine the limits of standard languages -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Speaker prestige -- 1.2 Accent status -- 1.3 Beauty -- 2. Background -- 3. A speaker evaluation experiment into Moroccan-accented Standard Dutch -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Study design -- 3.2.1 Speech stimuli -- 3.2.2 Measures -- 3.2.3 Respondents -- 3.2.4 Procedure -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Speaker prestige -- 5.2 Accent prestige -- 5.3 Beauty -- 5.4 Communal consent -- 6. General discussion and conclusion -- References -- Attitudes and language detail -- 1. Attitudes and language detail: Effects of specifying linguistic stimuli -- 1.1 Introduction -- 2. Language detail: Why does it matter? -- 3. Suisse romande: A sociolinguistic background -- 4. Methods -- 4.1 Participants -- 4.2 Stimuli -- 4.3 Procedure and measures -- 5. Some results -- 5.1 Global category name -- 5.2 Typicality of specific features -- 5.3 Elicited use -- 5.4 Evaluative dimensions -- 5.5 Discourse data -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix.

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