 It’s possible to wonder whether pragmatic twist accounts really have the implications for real-time utterance processing that psycholinguists routinely take them to have. (Searle’s account of how we can in principle work out metaphorical speaker’s meanings never purported to be a blow-by-blow narrative of real-time utterance processing. The more familiar and stereotyped a metaphorical construal gets, the more likely we may be to spot it and endorse it without considering and rejecting any literal rivals first. And Grice’s theory predicts there will be situations where we can safely conclude that a literal construal accords with the Cooperative Principle only after we consider and reject various of its figurative rivals.) It’s possible to wonder whether structure mapping and superordinate category accounts can handle recalcitrant timing data any better than the Gricean competition. More recent studies suggest that literal construals may have an especially urgent and timely claim on our attention after all, see esp. Giora (2003).