Pragmatics Includes Which Three Communication Skills

question 7

Multiple Choice

Pragmatics includes which three communication skills?

• A) the ability to use oral discourse, written discourse, and academic discourse according to the appropriate context
• B) the ability to identify typical grammar problems, syntax errors, and false cognates
• C) the ability to identify double meanings, write and speak different sentence structures, and produce novel utterances
• D) the ability to use language for different functions, adapt language according to the listener or situation, and follow rules for conversations and narrative

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Definitions:

Prediction Interval

A range of values that is likely to contain the value of an unknown future observation within a specified confidence level.

Spread Residuals

The differences between observed values and the values predicted by a model, spread across the range of predicted values.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the sample data, that is believed to contain the true population parameter with a certain level of confidence.

Normality

Normality is a statistical assumption that data or errors are distributed in a normal (or Gaussian) pattern, centered around the mean with symmetrical variability.