Suppose That You Are Walking on Your College Campus, and a Stranger

question 29

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are walking on your college campus, and a stranger asks you how to get to the library. Before answering, you need to figure out whether this person is familiar with any of the landmarks on the campus. Your concern about background information is most relevant for the aspect of language known as

• A) phonemes
• B) semantics.
• C) syntax.
• D) pragmatics.

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