Will Self regularly rebuffed commendations and words from well-wishers (13)
I believe the answer is:
felicitations
'words from well-wishers' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'will self regularly rebuffed commendations' is the wordplay.
'will self regularly' becomes 'ilef' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'rebuffed' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'commendations' becomes 'citations' (citation is a kind of commendation).
'ilef' in reverse letter order is 'feli'.
'feli'+'citations'='FELICITATIONS'
'and' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?