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When We Say, "Can You Open the Door?" Instead of "Open

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Question 10

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When we say, "Can you open the door?" instead of "Open the door!" we are using rules of politeness. These rules are part of which aspect of linguistic knowledge?


A) syntax
B) pragmatics
C) phonology
D) semantics

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