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 2007, when most of the editorial work for Vol. 37 was done:

• Asif Agha

• Samy Alim

• Jannis Androutsopoulos

• Lionel Wee Hock Ann

• Benjamin Bailey

• Laurie Bauer

• Michael Billig

• Shoshana Blum-Kulka

• Barbara Bokhour

• Don Brenneis

• Mary Bucholtz

• Debby Cameron

• Jennifer Coates

• Jennifer Cole

• Haruko Minegishi Cook

• Nik Coupland

• Boel De Geer

• Nancy Dorian

• Penelope Eckert

• Patrick Eisenlohr

• Susan Gal

• Dariusz Galasinski

• Penelope Gardner-Chloros

• Alexandra Georgakopoulou

• Candy Goodwin

• Paul ten Have

• Marlis Hellinger

• Jane Hill

• Janet Holmes

• Monica Heller

• Judith Irvine

• Alexandra Jaffe

• Adam Jaworski

• Anne Judge

• Elise Karkkainen

• Scott Kiesling

• Paul Kerswill

• Paul Kockelman

• Sonja Lanehart

• Miki Makihara

• Sinfree Makoni

• Greg Matoesian

• Bonnie McElhinny

• Jacqueline Messing

• Miriam Meyerhoff

• Lesley Milroy

• Lorenza Mondada

• Melissa Greer Moyer

• Sali Mufwene

• Carol Myers-Scotton

• Pieter Muysken

• Naomi Nagy

• Peter Patrick

• Christina Paulston

• Amy Paugh

• Robin Queen

• Geoffrey Raymond

• Natalie Schilling-Estes

• Edgar Schneider

• Jack Sidnell

• Leigh Swigart

• Margaret Szymanski

• Donald Tuten

• Dominic Watt

• Ruth Wodak

• Sue Wright