Acknowledgements

The editor is, foremost, grateful to the authors of the chapters in this volume for their commitment and endeavours. Without their contributions, this book would have never come to existence. Further sincere thanks go to the authors of the chapters who have earnestly participated in the peer-review process.

I also very gratefully acknowledge the assistance I received, in the peer-review process, from a number of scholars worldwide: Andreas Musolff, University of East Anglia, UK; Zouheir Maalej, retired professor, independent researcher; Gábor Győri, J. Sellye University, Komárno, Slovakia; Angeliki Athanasiadou, Aristotle University, Greece; Nadežda Silaški, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Ebru Türker, Arizona State University, USA; Maïa Ponsonnet, University of Western Australia; Žolt Papišta University of Novi Sad, Serbia; Inés Olza, University of Navarra, Spain.

I warmly thank Réka Benczes, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary and Sonja Kleinke, University of Heidelberg, Germany, for their support in suggesting contributors for the volume.

I also aknowledge the insightful feedback I received from anonymous reviewers and the very instructive comments from Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda Thornburg on an earlier version of the manuscript.

Warmest thanks go to the CLSCC book series editors Ning Yu and Hans-Georg Wolf for their great professionalism.

I thank the publishers for their support in the publication process.

I also thank Wolfgang Mieder for the keen interest he has shown in this volume and for his kind and boosting words as well.