Maegaard, Marie et al. (eds.): Language attitudesLanguage attitudes, standardization and language change is a collection of 14 papers devoted to developing and elucidating ideas originally conceived by the Norwegian and Danish scholar Tore Kristiansen. It is published on the occasion of his 60th birthday. This book is more than a traditional Festschrift, however. It is a coherent collection of papers by some of the worlds leading scholars in the sociolinguistic field of language attitudes, variation