"something of the nature of a figure of speech"

While in Harvard, Grice, casually dropped, that he was proposing to consider a special case of implicature --

where the utterer "gets in a conversational
implicature by means of something of
the nature of a figure of speech.

Imagine Albritton. If you are really into this, and wonder how much longer would Grice's lecture had been had he analysed those at http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/ -- answers on a postcard:

Again, note Grice's extreme colloquialism: 'figure of speech', skhema lexeos of the Greek. There as a second class, 'figures of thought'. Both usually credited as 'figurae rhetoricae' simpliciter (although I go for speech anyday, and find the second type irredeemably mentalistic):


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