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