List of Contributors -- Introduction: Converging trends for 21st century linguistics: A theoretical background -- Part I: Relaxing level boundaries -- Putting the "same" meaning together from different pieces -- Motivation and convention in some speech act constructions: A cognitive linguistic approach -- Subjectivity in Spanish esperar-based constructions -- Part II: Focusing on level interaction -- Prolegomena to Default Semantics -- Expressivity as an option of tense-aspect in language: The case of Modern Greek imperfective past -- Focus: The interplay of phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics -- Part III: Drawing on different theories -- Greek tragedy as impolite conversation: Towards a practice approach in linguistic theory -- Pragmatic correlates of frequency of use: The case for a notion of "minimal context" -- Metaphor in Greek pain-constructions: Cognitive and functional perspectives -- Contrastive Linguistics: A 21st century perspective -- Part IV: Exploring field interaction -- The nature of language: Twentieth century approaches -- Micro- and macro- dimensions in linguistic systems -- Bilingualism as matchmaker: Towards a marriage of sociopragmatic and psycholinguistic research -- The social and psychological modalities of politeness -- Part V: Interdisciplinary perspectives on modularity -- New directions for research on pragmatics and modularity -- Hearsay devices and metarepresentation -- Subject Index -- Name Index.