... of behavior games (cultural games, group games, couple games), and conversation games, and considers the idea that communicative competence may be viewed in formal terms as a metalevel property which controls first-level inferences. Carlson L Levin J A Mann W C Moore J A Wittgenstein L Conversation game...

...This chapter, which discusses the evolution, development, and decay of communicative competence in the context of cognitive pragmatics and its theoretical aspects, makes a distinction between competence and performance in communication, and suggests that the sole proof of the existence of a given...