?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Communicative+competence+and+the+architecture+of+the+mind%2Fbrain&rft.creator=Tirassa%2C+Maurizio&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.subject=Neurolinguistics&rft.subject=Neuropsychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.description=Cognitive+pragmatics+is+concerned+with+the+mental+processes+involved+in+intentional+communication.+I+discuss+a+few+issues+that+may+help+clarify+the+relationship+between+this+area+and+the+broader+cognitive+science+and+the+contribution+that+they+give%2C+or+might+give%2C+to+each+other.+Rather+than+dwelling+on+the+many+technicalities+of+the+various+theories+of+communication+that+have+been+advanced%2C+I+focus+on+the+different+conceptions+of+the+nature+and+the+architecture+of+the+mind%2Fbrain+that+underlie+them.+My+aims+are%2C+first%2C+to+introduce+and+defend+mentalist+views+of+communication+in+general%3B+second%2C+to+defend+one+such+view%2C+namely+that+communication+is+a+cognitive+competence%2C+that+is%2C+a+faculty%2C+and+the+underlying+idea+that+the+architecture+of+the+mind%2Fbrain+is+domain-specific%3B+and%2C+third%2C+to+review+the+(scarce)+neuropsychological+evidence+that+bears+on+these+issues.&rft.publisher=Academic+Press&rft.contributor=Stemmer%2C+Brigitte&rft.date=1999&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6811%2F1%2F1999-Communication-BL.pdf&rft.identifier=++Tirassa%2C+Maurizio++(1999)+Communicative+competence+and+the+architecture+of+the+mind%2Fbrain.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6811%2F