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


Ans: c

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