This is the last issue of Language in Society for which I have exclusive editorial responsibility. In this issue I've exploited my editorial privilege to publish a book review out of order received. Normally I publish book reviews in the order that they come in (with minor deviations when a short review will fit into an issue and a longer one won't). In the last few months I have accumulated a backlog of book reviews, which will be forwarded to Barbara Johnstone for editing. Only a few days ago, however, Barry Alpher submitted an exemplary scholarly review of a very important publication by R. M. W. Dixon. Alpher and Dixon have fundamental theoretical differences that go to the heart of our understanding of the modes of language change. This is a controversy that I find especially exciting, and I have taken the liberty of jumping Alpher's review to the front of the queue, reflecting my own interest in issues and languages that some might find to lie at the margins of sociolinguistics, and bringing these issues and languages forward for an appearance on center stage under my editorship.

I also take this opportunity to thank Cambridge University Press for the opportunity and privilege of editing this journal. I am very much indebted to copyeditor Jane McGary and to production editor Morrell Gillette. I thank the members of the Editorial Board for all their help during the past five years, and I thank especially the 293 scholars who have submitted referee evaluations during my editorship – a number of them more than once. The list below is a Who's Who of contemporary sociolinguistics, and I am humbled and grateful that these colleagues were willing to give their time to the exacting task of manuscript evaluation for Language in Society. I thank all the authors and reviewers for their fine contributions. And finally, I would like to extend my best wishes to Barbara Johnstone and wish her well in her editorship.

Referees for Language in Society, volumes 30–34

Mukhlis Abu Bakar

Michael Aceto

Nobuko Adachi

Carolyn Adger

Asif Agha

Laura Ahearn

Alexandra Aikhenvald

Niyi Akkinaso

H. Samy Alim

Enam Al-Weir

Jean Ann

Elisenda Ardèvol

Joan Argenter

Karin Aronsson

Peter Auer

Fabienne Baider

Benjamin Bailey

Guy Bailey

Richard Bailey

Michael Bamberg

Marlyse Baptista

Patricia Baquedano-López

Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig

Naomi Baron

John Baugh

H.-Dirksen L. Bauman

Richard Bauman

Edith Bavin

Robert Bayley

Wayne Beach

Alton G. Becker

William Beeman

Edward Bendix

Giovanni Bennardo

Eliezer Ben-Rafael

Paola Bentivoglio

Tej K. Bhatia

Jack Bilmes

Janet Bing

Jan Blommaert

Charles Boberg

Agnes Bolonyai

Lera Boroditsky

Richard Bourhis

Diana Boxer

Jim Bradac

Don Brenneis

Charles Briggs

Jill Brody

Penelope Brown

Mary Bucholtz

Steve Caldas

Deborah Cameron

Ana Carvalho

Wallace Chafe

Jack Chambers

Hui-Ching Chang

Jenny Cheshire

Steve Clayman

Jennifer Coates

Jim Collins

Guy Cook

Haruko Cook

Jenny Cook-Gumperz

Elizabeth Cooper-Kuhlen

Greville G. Corbett

Florian Coulmas

Justine Coupland

Nikolas Coupland

Jakob Cromdal

Charles E. DeBose

Mirjana Dedaić

Mariana Di Paolo

Nancy Dorian

Pamela A. Downing

Paul Drew

Jack Du Bois

Alessandro Duranti

Diana Eades

Carol Edelsky

Maria Egbert

Susan Ehrlich

Mary Erbaugh

Fredrick Erickson

Joseph Errington

Susan Ervin-Tripp

Ann-Carita Evaldsson

Ayala Fader

Yew-Jin Fang

Marcia Farr

Kristine Fitch

John Flowerdew

Ray Fogelson

Cecelia E. Ford

Joe Foster

Paul Foulkes

Alice Freed

Jonathan Friedman

Louanna Furbee

Joseph Gafaranga

Angela Garcia

Paul Garrett

Linda Garro

Rudolf Gaudio

Luciano Giannelli

John Gibbons

Lewis Glinert

Angela Goddard

Cliff Goddard

Marjorie H. Goodwin

Lisa Green

Allen Grimshaw

Joan Gross

Anthea Gupta

Niloofar Haeri

Edward Haig

John Haiman

Tony Hak

Kira Hall

Ruqaiya Hasan

Makoto Hayashi

Agnes Weiyun He

Monica Heller

Anita Henderson

Robert Herbert

John Heritage

Margarita Hidalgo

Leanne Hinton

Susan Hirsch

Chee Lick Ho

Andrew Hofling

Janet Holmes

Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing

Kaoru Horie

Nancy Hornberger

Barbara Horvath

Deborah House

Ian Hutchby

Alexandra Hrycak

Fumio Inoue

Judith T. Irvine

Shoichi Iwasaki

Sally Jacoby

Marco Jacquemet

Alexandra Jaffe

Sally Johnson

Barbara Johnstone

Kim Jones

Rodney Jones

Christina Kakava

Kuniyoshi Kataoka

Webb Keane

Elizabeth Keating

Scott Fabius Kiesling

Haeyeon Kim

Jeannette King

Kendall King

Andy Kirkpatrick

Natalie Kononenko

Claire Kramsch

Paul Kroskrity

Joel Kuipers

Amy Kyratzis

William Leap

Hyo Sang Lee

Gene Lerner

Anna Lindström

William Littlewood

Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

Ceil Lucas

Kang Kwong Luke

Hy Van Luong

Jenny Mandelbaum

Bruce Mannheim

John Manzo

Lori Markson

Holly Mathews

Greg Matoesian

Yoshiko Matsumoto

Patricia Mayes

Douglas Maynard

Sally McConnell-Ginet

Bonnie McElhinny

Naomi McGloin

Gigliana Melzi

Norma Mendoza-Denton

Elizabeth Mertz

Jacob Mey

Peggy Miller

Lesley Milroy

Brauli Montoya-Abat

Emma Moore

Leslie Moore

Marcyliena Morgan

Melissa Moyer

Salikoko Mufwene

Linda Mugglestone

Peter Mühlhäusler

Steve Murray

Peter Muysken

Carol Myers-Scotton

Terry Nadasdi

Johanna Nichols

Samuel Obeng

Yumiko Ohara

Shigeko Okamoto

Tsuyoshi Ono

Gary Palmer

Yuling Pan

Richard Parmentier

Claudia Parodi

Anne Pauwels

Eric Pederson

Susan U. Philips

Ingrid Piller

Anne Peirson-Smith

Linda Pickering

Anita Pomerantz

Robin Queen

Ben Rampton

Joel Robbins

Jeffrey Robinson

W. Peter Robinson

Margaret Rogers

Suzanne Romaine

Wolff-Michael Roth

Joseph Salmons

Otto Santa Ana

Srikant Sarangi

Emmanuel Schegloff

Bambi Schieffelin

Harold Schiffman

Deborah Schiffrin

Suzanne Scollon

Mark Sebba

Joel Sherzer

Jack Sidnell

Maria Sifianou

Carmen Silva-Corvalán

Beth Lee Simon

Janet Shibamoto Smith

Geneva Smitherman

Ron Smyth

Ho-Min Sohn

Jae Jung Song

Debra Spitulnik

Bernard Spolsky

James Stanlaw

Claudia Strauss

Jürgen Streeck

Peter Stromberg

Pauline Turner Strong

Christopher Stroud

Hao Sun

Yukako Sunaoshi

Susan Suzman

Peter Tan

Hiroko Tanaka

Paul ten Have

Sandra Thompson

Matt Tomlinson

Elizabeth Traugott

Sarah Trechter

Shonna Trinch

Rudolph G. Troike

Lukas D. Tsitsipis

G. Richard Tucker

Bonnie Urciuoli

Jacqueline Urla

Krista Varantola

Eija Ventola

James Walker

Keith Walters

Hansung Zhang Waring

Suwako Watanabe

Ann Weatherall

Li Wei

Geoffrey White

Linda White

Jim Wilce

Angela Williams

Elizabeth Winkler

Ruth Wodak

Walt Wolfram

Song Mei-Li Wong

Kathryn Woolard

Tony Wootton

Malcah Yaeger

Sumiyuki Yukawa

Don Zimmerman

Yael Ziv