The article discusses views of the author on being the editor of the periodical "Research on Language and Social Interaction" in the United States. According to the author, editorship in its early phases has already given a very different , yet rich view of how knowledge takes shape. The author hopes that a glance behind the scenes in this arena of language and social interaction scholarship calls attention to the interactive nature of editorial processes. The author adds that the most evident level on which any scholarly journal is part of an interaction is that the journal's readers are the intended audience for the published essays.