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 and Laura Etheridge 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 2011, when most of the editorial work for Vol. 41 was done:

• Nancy Abelmann

• Anna Babel

• John Bateman

• Richard Bauman

• Carol Berkenkotter

• Thomas Bonfiglio

• Mary Bucholtz

• Isabelle Buchstaller

• Matthew Burdelski

• Kathryn Campbell-Kibler

• E. Summerson Carr

• Jenny Cheshire

• Elaine Chun

• John Conley

• Jenny Cook-Gumperz

• Nik Coupland

• Angela Creese

• Ana Deumert

• Sylvie Dubois

• Alexandre Duchêne

• Arienne Dwyer

• Susan Ehrlich

• David Fearon

• Rita Franceschini

• Janet Fuller

• Susan Gal

• Angela Cora Garcia

• Alexandra Georgakopoulou

• Charles Goodwin

• Cynthia Gordon

• Niloofar Haeri

• Auli Hakulinen

• Georgina Heydon

• Kathryn Howard

• Andreas Jucker

• Elizabeth Keating

• Paul Kerswill

• Scott F. Kiesling

• Jennifer Leeman

• Michael Lempert

• Erez Levon

• Carmen Llamas

• Ceil Lucas

• Charlene Mackley

• Yael Maschler

• Tommaso Milani

• Lorenza Mondada

• Tope Omonyi

• Winnie Orr

• Joseph Park

• Amy Paugh

• Sabina Perrino

• Silvia Pessoa

• Susan Philips

• Robert Podesva

• John Rae

• Ben Rampton

• Geoffrey Raymond

• Justin Richland

• Sylvie Roy

• Keith Sawyer

• Mark Sicoli

• Michael Silverstein

• Jürgen Streek

• Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

• Greg A. Thompson

• Eivind Torgersen

• Shonna Trinch

• Peter Trudgill

• Eija Ventola

• Cécile Vigouroux

• Cecilia Wadensjö

• Keith Walters

• Jim Wilce

• Walt Wolfram