From the Editors

We are pleased to see the present special volume of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics, “North American Contributions to Slavic Sociolinguistics”, appear in print. Due to a confluence of many different circumstances (none of which has to do with the fine editorial staff at JSL and Slavica), the production timeline of this volume was longer than we would have preferred, and we would like to extend our gratitude to the authors represented here for their patience throughout the process. The high quality of this collection is a direct result of the solid research that our colleagues contributed, and we are pleased to have had the opportunity to work with them and include their scholarship in these pages.

The present contributions, like those of all other JSL volumes, underwent a strict review process, and we would like to express our thanks to Angel Angelov, Wayles Browne, Joan Chevalier, Lida Cope, John Dunn, Marc Greenberg, Lenore Grenoble, Susan Kresin, Keith Langston, John Leafgren, M. Paul Lewis, Ingunn Lunde, and Valentina Zaitseva for their invaluable contributions as reviewers of the articles submitted for publication here.

It is a privilege to have this collection appear as a special volume of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics, and thereby to represent the Slavic Linguistics Society, and for that we give a hearty thanks to JSL Editor-in-Chief, Steven Franks. Many thanks are also due to JSL Managing Editor, Rosemarie Connolly, as well as to Vit Vaníček, Technical Editor for Slavica Publishers, and George Fowler, Director of Slavica Publishers, for their time and efforts in shepherding things through the technical editing and production processes without which you would not be holding this volume in your hands.

We hope that you will find the articles presented in this volume stimulating and intellectually engaging, and that these contributions will prompt other scholars to explore new lines of research in the rapidly growing field of Slavic sociolinguistics.