In a millennium year we can expect increased stock-taking of the sort: where have we come from? Where are we now?

Where do we go from here? The present contribution is an attempt to do this kind of stock-taking with respect to intonation and discourse. It consists of three millennialistic views organized temporally, starting with the view backwards, then the view of today, and finally a view of the future, near and far. Needless to say, all of these temporal viewings have their reference point at the moment of speaking, that is now. Moreover, they are the authors views: they are anchored deictically to one researcher in the field.1 Although it is difficult to avoid this natural bias, an adjunct like from within can at least recognize it as such.