Norm rarely understands puns, and he struggles to understand figurative or metaphoric language. More than one friend has suggested that he sometimes says rude or inappropriate things in social situations
Norm has difficulty with the ________ aspect of language, an aspect that may be processed in the brain's ________ hemisphere.
a) pragmatic; left
b) pragmatic; right
c) semantic; left
d) semantic; right
ANS: B, Pragmatics is a right-hemisphere aspect of language concerned with the social and metaphoric elements of communication.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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