Volume Editor

Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine (Italy)

Editor-in-Chief

Autumn Edwards, Western Michigan University (U.S.A.)

Associate Editors

Patric R. Spence, University of Central Florida (U.S.A.)

Chad Edwards, Western Michigan University (U.S.A.)

Editorial Board

Somaya Ben Allouch, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands)

Maria Bakardjieva, University of Calgary (Canada)

Jaime Banks, Syracuse University (U.S.A.)

Naomi S. Baron, American University (U.S.A.)

Erin Chiou, Arizona State University (U.S.A.)

Charles M. Ess, University of Oslo (Norway)

Jan Fernback, Temple University (U.S.A.)

Laura Forlano, Illinois Institute of Technology (U.S.A.)

Andrew Gambino, Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong)

Robert W. Gehl, Louisiana Tech University (U.S.A.)

Maartje de Graaf, Utrecht University (Netherlands)

David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University (U.S.A.)

Andrea Guzman, Northern Illinois University (U.S.A.)

Meg Leta Jones, Georgetown University (U.S.A.)

Steve Jones, University of Illinois-Chicago (U.S.A.)

Jenny Kennedy, RMIT University (Australia)

Jihyun Kim, University of Central Florida (U.S.A.)

Rinaldo Kühne, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Kenneth A. Lachlan, University of Connecticut (U.S.A.)

Hee Rin Lee, University of California San Diego (U.S.A.)

S. Austin Lee, Chapman University (U.S.A.)

Seth C. Lewis, University of Oregon (U.S.A.)

Matthew Lombard, Temple University (U.S.A.)

Christoph Lutz, BI Norwegian Business School (Norway)

Yi Mou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)

Rhonda McEwen, University of Toronto (Canada)

Peter Nagy, Arizona State University (U.S.A.)

Seungahn Nah, University of Florida (U.S.A.)

Gina Neff, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

Jochen Peter, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Sharon Ringel, University of Haifa (Israel)

Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten, RWTH Aachen University (Germany)

Eleanor Sandry, Curtin University (Australia)

Mauro Sarrica, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)

Megan Strait, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (U.S.A.)

Satomi Sugiyama, Franklin University Switzerland (Switzerland)

Sakari Taipale, University of Jyväskylä (Finland)

David Westerman, North Dakota State University (U.S.A)