hearer share certain expectations about how conversation should proceed. Grice summarizes these expectations in his Cooperative Principle—Make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the state at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged—and its related maxims of quantity, quality, relation and manner.44 Wilson and Sperber take up Grice’s concept of relation or relevance and develop it in new ways until it becomes the overriding