Acknowledgements

We would like to express our gratitude to Prof. Anita Fetzer for offering us an opportunity to publish this volume in her Pragmatics & Beyond New Series. Our sincere thanks go to all the contributors for their great support and patience. We are very grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their insightful remarks and invaluable suggestions on the content of all the chapters. It is perhaps needless to say that all the remaining errors are our responsibility. We would also like to thank Isja Conen (Acquisition Editor) and the whole team at John Benjamins for their generous help with handling the production process of the volume.