Key Words 9: A Journal of Cultural Materialism Much of this issue of Key Words has to do with border crossings. Five of the essays are the result of the willingness of colleagues in Swansea and in Tokyo to cross international borders in order to engage in a transnational discussion of Williams’s work. Three contributions focus on questions of language. While this issue is primarily about Raymond Williams’s work, his ideas and influence, this section brings two other key thinkers into the dialogue – Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Terry Eagleton, who is perhaps Williams’s foremost disciple. Contents: Editors’ Preface Signs, Socialism and Ethics: Eagleton on Language - Tony Crowley Terry Eagleton, Postmodernism and Ireland - Edward Larrissy Williams and Wittgenstein: Language, Politics and Structure of Feeling - Ben Ware Border Country: Then and Now - Simon Dentith Raymond Williams in Japan Essays by contemporary Japanese critics, edited and introduced by Daniel G. Williams Guest Editor’s Intr...