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is not strained," or Máo Zédng's "A revolution is not a dinner party," is their
utter pointlessness due to their excessively plain truth.)
The Gricean strategy is not the only first-step option. Some metaphorical
utterances are not in any way defective; there are other contextual cues, such
as the kind of discourse that is taking place. Searle observes that, "when read-
ing Romantic poets, we are on the lookout for metaphors" (p. 114). Kittay
(1987: 76) notes that metaphors are sometimes explicitly flagged as such: A
victim is tied against a wall by thieves. "He realized that both literally and
metaphorically . . . he was up against the wall, and . . . his hands were tied."
The principal general strategy for the second step, Searle unsurprisingly
says, is to look for similarities or comparisons. Searle offers eight principles
according to which the uttered phrase can call to mind a different meaning
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