There is accumulating clinical and experimental evidence of neurofunctional labour division in processing the linguistic and pragmatic components of verbal communication. Left-hemisphere-damaged individuals communicate better than they speak, and the opposite goes for right-hemisphere-damaged individuals. Much about how the right hemisphere subserves pragmatics remains to be determined though. The essay further addresses the implicit- en explicitness of pragmatic competence, the use of inference in all pragmatic domains, the dinstinction between sentence grammar and verbal communication, and the need of combining grammar and pragmatics in utterance interpretation.