98 Make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged Speech errors are often ignored in conversation as long as the meaning the speaker is trying to get across is clear.
Likewise, we often find that meaning in some statements on the surface seem ridiculous and unrelated,
eg, sarcasm, metaphors, hyperbolic statements and so forth, because we assume that speakers who use them are trying to get across some meaning. This is what the whole idea of cooperative principle is all about.
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