Joan Is Eating Lunch, and She Says to Brad, "Can

question 74

Multiple Choice

Joan is eating lunch, and she says to Brad, "Can you pass the salt?" Brad replies "Yes, I can"; however, he doesn't actually pass the salt. What kind of miscommunication does this brief conversation suggest?

• A) A slip-of-the-tongue
• B) A syntactic error
• C) A pragmatic problem
• D) The linearization problem

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