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Theodore Alan Sackett As I begin my seventh year as Editor of Hispania I would like to look back briefly and then ahead to the final three years of my editorial work. First, I would like to congratulate George R. McMurray for his nine years as section head of «The Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World», an important component of our journal initiated many years ago by a former Editor, Robert G. Mead, Jr. George has carried forward the work of his predecessors with great distinction and has passed on his vast knowledge of how to produce a «magazine» within a scholarly journal to his successor, Teresa Bolet Rodríguez of Northern Colorado University. Teresa has prepared the section for this March 1990 issue with a thoroughness and high level of interest for our readers which are proof of the efficacy of her predecessor's guidance. Our readers will also find here the continuation of the special feature at the start of the last (December 1989) issue: «Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Linguistics»: Three more essays covering additional fields of Hispanic Linguistics appear in the «Theoretical Linguistics» section together with the ongoing material for that section. In this issue, also, Robert A. Quinn initiates the new section on «Technologically Assisted Language Learning», with an extensive essay in which he defines an essentially new area of information for AATSP members. Farther in the future we look forward to the first entire number of Hispania to be devoted to materials dealing with the Luso-Brazilian areas of interest to AATSP members and readers, to appear in 1991. And in 1992, the final year of my Editorship, there will be a special issue of Hispania devoted to the Quincentennial commemoration and to the 75th anniversary of the founding of our journal. Finally, as we enter the new decade, I think it is appropriate to proclaim publically in the context of the new Spain, a federation of autonomous regions and nationalities, that while Hispania continues to welcome essays in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, it also invites the submission of materials written in those languages dealing not only with the traditional areas of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian language and culture, but also with the Basque, Catalan, and Galician languages and cultures as well.
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