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

question 47

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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