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