Acknowledgements

We would like to express our deep gratitude to our two reviewers, Hugo Baetens Beardsmore and Daniel Coste, for their very close editing and highly relevant and constructive comments. Our thanks are also due to our translator Kevin Cook and our copy-editor Yseult Thornley, who have greatly helped to produce or improve the English versions of our texts. We are also very grateful to the members of the Interdisciplinary Platform at the University of Lausanne for their contribution to one of the chapters in this book, as well as the ‘Languages and Science’ working group of the European Language Council, whose work complements and echoes our own ideas. Finally, our thanks to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) for granting permission to publish the results of a study that is discussed in one of the chapters of our book.