Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Tony McEnery and Dana Gablasova for their continued support and encouragement throughout the process of writing this book as well as for their detailed comments on each of the chapters. The work has also greatly benefited from the insightful points raised by Gabriele Pallotti who has read a large part of the manuscript. In addition, I would also like to thank the following colleagues for their helpful comments on different parts of the manuscript: Peter Diggle, Michael Gauthier, Andrew Hardie and Irene Marin Cervantes. I thank Gill Smith for her help with the formatting of the manuscript and Irene Marin Cervantes for preparing index entries. Thanks are also due to two anonymous reviewers for their very helpful and encouraging comments.
The writing of this book was supported by ESRC grants nos. EP/P001559/1 and ES/K002155/1.