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 Mark Thompson, copyeditor Audra Starcheus, and Morrell Gillette, Pooja Jain, and Laura Etheredge at Cambridge University Press. I consult regularly with the journal's associate editors and members of the editorial board, and I value their thoughtfulness and willingness to help.
I am also pleased to acknowledge the contribution of the following scholars who reviewed manuscripts during 2010, when most of the editorial work for Vol. 40 was done.
Asif Agha
Francesca Bargiela
Rusty Barrett
Reem Bassiouney
Abdelali Bentahila
Aditi Bhatia
Galina Bolden
R. McKenna Brown
Mary Bucholtz
Isabelle Buchstaller
Richard Buttny
Rebecca Clift
Alessandro Duranti
Susan Ehrlich
Sue Fox
Alice Freed
Joseph Gafaranga
Dariusz Galasinski
Cynthia Gordon
Monica Heller
Jane Hill
Janet Holmes
Jennifer Jackson
Jeffrey Kallen
Helen Kelly-Holmes
Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz
Scott Kiesling
Michelle Lazar
Adrienne Lo
Johanna Mesch
Tommaso Milani
Gabriella Modan
Maurice Nevile
Valentina Pagliai
Peter Patrick
Ingrid Piller
Joan Pujolar
Martin Reisigl
Rachel Rosenstock
Barbara Schaffer
Bambi Schieffelin
Klaus Schneider
Mark Sebba
Farzad Sharifan
Devyani Sharma
Robin Shoaps
Tanya Stivers
Maria Stubbe
Jane Sunderland
Deborah Tannen
Katrina Thompson
Jason Throop
Donald Tuten
David Valentine
James Walker
Andrew Wong
Virpi Ylänne
Ulrike Zeshan