Language and Gender in the Military: Honorifics, Narrative, and I ...

Acknowledgments

Let me take this opportunity to thank Karl and Mary Jo Disler, mom and dad, who have always put up with their quirky daughter’s many adventures. I’m particularly indebted to my mother’s years of good advice regarding computers, scholarship, and publishing. Thanks also to Debbie, Zoe, and Zack for tolerating the piles of books and papers to be navigated around while I’m working on one project or another. In the course of conducting research involving field work, lots of moving parts need to come together. I’m thankful to those who facilitated the field work I conducted at various Air Force bases, and especially my informants (whom I cannot name, as their identities were protected as a stipulation for this research). I’m deeply appreciative of the personal and professional mentoring Deborah Tannen has provided and continues to provide.Ron Scollon’s and Heidi Hamilton’s very helpful suggestions are happily incorporated into this text. Special thanks to Margaret Toye, who endured hours and hours of transcription and searching these data for “ma’am” and “sir.” My special thanks also to colleagues Tom Vargish and Donald Anderson for close review of this manuscript and very useful feedback.