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simply that Ms X sang "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth"? "Presumably,
to emphasize a striking difference between [Ms] X's performance and those
to which the word `singing' is usually applied." A more common type of
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example is when the speaker's sentence is too obviously false; Grice cites
sarcasm there.
Grice suggests that his theory will account for metaphor, since metaphori-
cal utterances typically flout (M3):
Examples like "You are the cream in my coffee" characteristically involve
categorical falsity, so the contradictory of what the speaker has made as
if to say will, strictly speaking, be a truism; so it cannot be that that such
a speaker is trying to get across. The most likely supposition is that the
speaker is attributing to his audience some feature or features in respect
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