... certain beliefs and behaviors. For example to offer a guest a drink at a party, you need to be the host (or otherwise have the right to make the offer) and there needs to be some drink, ... and (b) respond to the question and are considered to be “answer”, whereas utterances like those in (c) to (i) respond to the verb of questioning itself and are considered to be “replies”. ... that he may be presumed to be cooperative, in particular, to be speaking truthfully, informatively, relevantly, and otherwise, appropriately. The listener relies on this presumption to make a...