Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Helen Barton at Cambridge University Press not only for her constant support and encouragement throughout the preparations for this volume, but also for her patience since this volume took much longer than anticipated. Life is like that sometimes, and we are grateful for her understanding. We are also grateful to her editorial team at Cambridge University Press, especially Isabel Collins, who was incredibly helpful to us in preparing the manuscript.
We have many people to thank in terms of discussions of the content in many of the chapters, and we would like to single out those who commented on drafts of the manuscript. Our sincere thanks go to Dr Anne McCabe, who provided constructive comments and suggestions on the manuscript. We also want to thank Dr Michelle Aldridge for sharing her expertise in child language development and in health communication, and for her valuable comments on drafts of the related parts of the volume. We are especially grateful for the positive comments and helpful suggestions that we received from the anonymous external reviewer of the final draft. We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers of the proposal itself for the support they gave to this project and for the very useful comments that helped us in directing our plans.
We are very grateful to a dear friend, J. Shallow, for generously contributing a custom-designed illustration (the way i see things) for one of our examples. Thank you!
Our thanks also go to Emma Collier for her detailed and careful proofreading of our work. Last but certainly not least, we want to thank Ceri Tanswell for her work on the index for this volume.
Writing a volume such as this takes its toll, and it takes time. We want to express our gratitude to our families and friends who supported us throughout these past many years as we devoted so much time to referring.
Lise Fontaine was supported by Cardiff University’s research leave award on two separate occasions during the writing of this book. I (Lise) am very grateful for the opportunity to have had dedicated time for this work. I am especially grateful to my colleagues for their support.
