 In what follows, I attend to such seminal conceptualisations of defaultness, their provenance, and their relative merits (Sections 1–3). Section 4 follows with some remarks on what can be called ‘dynamic defaultness’ in the theories and models of a joint construction (‘co-construction’) of meaning that are steadily gaining ground across different strands of pragmatic research (Lewis 1979; Asher and Lascarides 2013; Elder and Haugh 2018). Next, I briefly move to the role of defaults on the crossroads of philosophy of language with disciplines such as ethics, epistemology, and law (Section 5).