Acknowledgements

The idea for this book originated at the workshop, Language in Politics in Slavic Speaking Countries, held at Friedrich Schiller University Jena in May 2015. As such, we would like to extend our thanks to Friedrich Schiller University Jena for the financial support it granted to organizing this workshop and to the copy-editing of this volume.

We would also like to express our gratitude to all the authors in this volume for their active cooperation and a great deal of patience during the compilation process.

We are particularly grateful to the two anonymous reviewers. We have substantially benefited from their valuable suggestions and their constructive comments helped the authors and the editors to improve the volume chapters and the volume as whole.

Our special thanks go to the editors to this volume, Jo Angouri, Andreas Musolff, and Johann Wolfgang Unger. We are particularly grateful to Jo Angouri for her clear and detailed guidance and warm encouragement and to Isja Conen at John Benjamins for their support during the compilation process.

Last but not least, we greatly appreciate the constructive feedback by Ruprecht von Waldenfels on the revised version of the manuscript and we are very thankful to James Stephen who helped us enormously with the copy-editing.