Acknowledgements

This volume results from the fruitful discussions in the workshop on “Paratextual Communication in a Historical Perspective”, held at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Edinburgh, August 2018). We would like to thank all the contributors for enthusiastically sharing our interest in the topic and for their valuable co-operation.

We are very grateful for the continued support by the series editor, Anita Fetzer, and by Isja Conen at John Benjamins. We would also like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on a previous version of the manuscript. Finally, our thanks go to Carolin Aldick and Nora Behrendt, who, with their careful attention and devotion to detail, have been of immense help in preparing the volume for publication.