Following the very well‐attended Presidential Panel “Frontiers in Methodology in Linguistic Anthropology,” organized by Diane Riskedahl and chaired by Barbra Meek at the November 2012 American Anthropological Association meeting, we are inaugurating a new forum for essays and commentary on linguistic anthropological methods and analysis in this issue. We are very pleased to have Susan Philips's essay as our first piece, and are confident that it will be a valuable resource and will prompt lively discussion. Authors who would like to contribute an essay or brief commentary to this forum should contact either one of us to discuss the specific proposal.