I am grateful for the support during the past year of the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University. I am also very grateful to Editorial Assistant Jennifer Andrus, copyeditor Jane McGary, and Morrell Gillette and Pooja Jain at Cambridge University Press. I consult regularly with the journal’s associate editors and members of the editorial board, and I value their thoughtful advice and willingness to help.
I am also pleased to acknowledge the contribution of the following scholars who reviewed manuscripts during 2008, when most of the editorial work for Vol. 38 was done:
Asif Agha
Jannis Androutsopoulos
Peter Auer
Naomi Baron
Rusty Barrett
Ellen Barton
Niko Besnier
Mary Bucholtz
Isabelle Buchstaller
Deborah Cameron
Jenny Cheshire
Nikolas Coupland
Claire Cowie
Tony Crowley
Anna De Fina
Carmen Fought
Paul Barrett
Marjorie Harness Goodwin
Cynthia Gordon
Matthew Gordon
Monica Heller
John Heritage
David Herman
Jane Hill
Janet Holmes
Adam Jaworski
Scott F. Kiesling
Adrienne Lo
Yoshiko Matsumoto
Salikoko Mufwene
Greg Myers
Minerva Oropeza Escobar
Winnie Orr
Andrew Roth
David Samuels
Todd Sandel
Edgar Schneider
Michael Silverstein
Deborah Tannen
Lionel Wee Hock Ann
Kathryn Woolard
Amanda Young
