This is the first issue of Language in Society to go to press under my editorship, though most of the contents of this issue were edited by Jane Hill. I would like to thank Professor Hill for making the editorial transition as smooth as it has been. She has been ready to help and advise at a moment's notice. Readers of the journal, too, owe Professor Hill an enormous debt of gratitude for her work as editor. I hope that Language in Society will continue to be as interesting and up to date during my tenure, but Jane Hill will be a hard act to follow.

I would also like to thank the members of the Editorial Board whose terms ended at the end of 2004: Nancy Dorian, William Frawley, Charles Goodwin, and Deborah Schiffrin. Walt Wolfram and Kathryn Woolard generously agreed to move from Editorial Board to Associate Editorships. I also welcome these new members to the Editorial Board: Jan Blommaert, Mary Bucholtz, Niloofar Haeri, Elizabeth Keating, Yael Maschler, Bonnie McElhinny, Salikoko Mufwene, Greg Myers, Christina Bratt Paulston, Lukas Tsitsipis, and Ruth Wodak. As they know already, I rely on Editorial Board members for reviews and advice, and I appreciate their generosity with both.

Generous support from the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University and Cambridge University Press are funding a fellowship for an editorial assistant, which is currently held by Craig O. Stewart, a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University doing dissertation research on discourses of science. His help is invaluable, as is that of the journal's copyeditor, Jane McGary.