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 Morrell Gillette and Pooja Jain 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.
Our long-time copy editor Jane McGary retired in March, and I was lucky to hire Audra Starcheus to replace her. Jane edited the first two issues of Volume 39, Jane and Audra edited 39(3), and Audra edited the final two issues of this volume. I am very grateful to both.
Editorial Assistant Jennifer Andrus left the journal at the end of July to take a job as Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Utah. Her successor is Mark Thompson, a Ph.D. candidate in Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University. Mark is a discourse analyst who is interested in how individuals and institutions interact. I am very fortunate to have such wonderful helpers.
I am also pleased to acknowledge the contribution of the following scholars who reviewed manuscripts during 2009, when most of the editorial work for Vol. 39 was done:
Pal Aarsand
W. F. H. Adelaar
Asif Agha
Karin Aijmer
Samy Alim
Mahmoud Al-Khatib
Bridget Anderson
Jannis Androutsopoulos
Peter Auer
Laurie Bauer
Jan Blommaert
Derek Bousfield
Mary Bucholtz
Jill Brody
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
Holly Cashman
Kawai Chui
Christine Connelly
Mirjana Dedaic
Susan Ehrlich
Robert Englebretson
Joseph Errington
Robert Greenberg
Sandra Hale
Sandra Harris
Jennifer Hay
Christina Higgins
Jane Hill
Elizabeth Holt
Barbara Horvath
Rosaleen Howard
Judith Irvine
Alexandra Jaffe
Yasuko Kanno
Celia Kitzinger
Paul Kockelman
Chak Chung Kenneth Kong
Elizabeth Lanza
Per Linell
Barbara LeMaster
Adrienne Lo
Jim Martin
Yaron Matras
Janet Maybin
Bonnie McElhinny
Angel Corbera Mori
Pieter Muysken
Eleanor Nevins
Johanna Nichols
Carol Padden
Robert Podesva
Robin Queen
Ben Rampton
Julie Roberts
Suzanne Romaine
Joseph Salmons
Otto Santa Ana
Maria Sifianou
Rupert Stasch
Jürgen Streek
Hsi-Yao Su
Sandra Thompson
Gunnel Tottie
Carol Trosset
Donald Tuten
Cécile Vigouroux
Suzanne Wertheim
James Walker
Keith Walters
Christina Wasson
Walt Wolfram
Andrew Wong
Stanton Wortham
Qing Zhang