This issue of Language in Society is the final issue in the first volume of the journal to have appeared under my editorship. I am grateful for the support of the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University. I am also very grateful to editorial assistant Craig O. Stewart and copyeditor Jane McGary, as well as to Barbara Chin, Morrell Gillette, and Robert Dreesen at Cambridge University Press.
I am also pleased to acknowledge the contribution of the following scholars who reviewed manuscripts during 2005.
Keiko Abe
Michael Aceto
Asif Agha
Laura Ahearn
Bridget Anderson
Robert B. Arundale
Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Rusty Barrett
John Baugh
Wayne Beach
Janet Bing
Jack Bilmes
Jan Blommaert
Lynne Bowker
Don Brenneis
David Britain
Mary Bucholtz
Steve Caldas
Jenny Cheshire
Michael Cline
Daniel Collins
James Collins
Janet Cotterill
Nikolas Coupland
Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain
Giovanna Del Negro
Jose Delvalle
Paul Drew
Patricia Dunmire
Alessandro Duranti
Diana Eades
Susan Ehrlich
José Antonio Flores Farfan
Alessandra Fasulo
Crawford Feagin
Paul Foulkes
Susan Fussell
Penelope Gardner-Chloros
Rudolf Gaudio
Virginia Gill
Candy Goodwin
Niloofar Haeri
Heidi Hamilton
Sandra Harris
Jake Harwood
Makato Hayashi
Kirk Hazen
Monica Heller
John Heritage
Ian Hutchby
Christopher Hutton
Sachiko Ide
Judith Irvine
Susan Jacoby
Alexandra Jaffe
Kaoru Kanai
Elise Karkkainen
Kuniyoshi Kataoka
Webb Keane
Elizabeth Keating
Steven Hartman Keiser
Scott F. Kiesling
Kendall King
Andy Kirkpatrick
Kenneth Kong
Don Kulick
Anna Lindstrom
Lamont Lindstrom
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
Ceil Lucas
K. K. Luke
Bruce Mannheim
Paul Manning
Yael Maschler
Douglas Maynard
Bonnie McElhinny
Miriam Meyerhoff
Flagg Miller
Lesley Milroy
Salikoko Mufwene
Carol Myers-Scotton
Terry Nadasdi
Johanna Nichols
Nancy Niedzielski
Neal Norrick
Patricia O'Connor
Yumiko Ohara
Yuling Pan
Christina Bratt Paulston
Anita Pomerantz
Robin Queen
Geoff Raymond
Lorna Rhodes
Sarah Roberts
Suzanne Romaine
Betsy Rymes
Todd Sandel
Otto Santa Ana
Jann Scheuer
Natalie Schilling-Estes
Joel Sherzer
Maureen Schwarz
Robin Shoaps
Jack Sidnell
Carmen Silva-Corvalán
Nancy Smith-Hefner
Dan Suslak
Jan Svennevig
Sali Taglimonte
Marina Terkourafi
Immacolata Tempesta
Crispin Thurlow
Matt Tomlinson
Elizabeth Traugott
Keith Walters
Suwako Watanabe
Dominic Watt
Lionel Wee
Li Wei
Paul Wexler
Jim Wilce
Marilyn Whalen
Ruth Wodak
Walt Wolfram
Sumiyuki Yukawa
Don Zimmerman
