VIenna English Working paperS Volume 4 Number 2 December, 1995 Contents Impressum............................................................................................... 145 Dalton-Puffer, Christiane; Kaltenböck, Gunther; Smit, Ute Language attitudes of L2 learners to native and non-native varieties of English .................................................................. 76 Hickey, Raymond Early contact and parallels between English and Celtic............................ 87 Kourilová, Magda Some linguistic and cultural aspects of scientific discourse processing ..120 Teufel, Gunda Language attitudes of Anglo-Australian high-school students towards German-accented English......................... 131 Letter from the Editors: Views re-viewed Hello again, we hope you are all either enjoying your winter and/or getting on with all those things you’ve had to postpone during the past term. When we called our working papers VIEWS, this was meant to be an operative word, reflecting the intention to produce not so much finished papers as comments and opinions open-ended enough to provide a forum for discussion.