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The thoughtful and provocative response by Pilar Garces-Conejos to my article that appeared in a recent issue of  Intercultural Pragmatics  (vol. 3, no. 2) dealt with three themes related to my paper in an earlier issue, “Strategies for learning and performing L2 speech acts” (vol. 2, no. 3). These were “speech act theory,” “discourse completion tasks,” and “multi-competence pragmatics.” It was especially helpful that Garces- Conejos spelled out her arguments so clearly in each of the three areas. I appreciate her efforts to point out what she considers weaknesses in the field of interlanguage pragmatics, given what she considers its shaky foundations in light of the multi-competence model of proficiency. It is through such interventions as hers that academic work moves to higher levels of precision and excellence. So I applaud her commentary.

Interlanguage pragmatics: A reply to Pilar Garces-Conejos Blitvich