Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to all those who have contributed to this collective volume in a variety of ways. We thank the contributors for their confidence in our project, their timely responses, and careful revisions of their contributions.

We also want to express our deepest gratitude to our colleagues who dedicate their time and consideration to carefully evaluate the chapters of this volume, improving the quality of the papers in this book.

We are in debt to our colleagues in the Linguistic Landscape field: Peter Backhaus, Sheryl Bernardo-Hinesley, Robert Blackwood, Llorenç Comajoan Colomé, José Manuel Franco Rodríguez, Vicente Lledó-Guillem, David Malinowski, Glenn Martínez, Antonio Medina Rivera, Máiréad Moriarty, Brendan H. O’Connor, Daniel Sáez Rivera, Peter Sayer, Josep Soler, Adil Moustaoui Srhir, Virginia Unamunu, Mieke Vandenbroucke, Joseph Weyers.

We are also grateful to our colleagues in Hispanic Linguistics who helped us to ensure this volume is a useful tool for researchers in this field: Flavia Belpoliti, Talia Bugel, María Ciriza, Susana de los Heros, Camilo Díaz Romero, Anna María Escobar, Armando Guerrero, José Esteban Hernández, Thomas Lewis, Brauli Montoya Abat, Mercedes Niño Murcia, Katie O’Donnell Christoffersen, Rafael Orozco, Lisbeth Phillips, Lourdes Torres, Damián Wilson-Vergara.

Finally, we want to express our thanks to the editors of John Benjamins series Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, especially Megan Solon and Kimberly Geeslin, whose advice, help and patience have been critical for the accomplishment of this project.