Multiple Choice
Seth tells his friend that he got two tickets to a big concert next week,to which his friend replies,"Get out of town!" Because of the context,Seth knows his friend is expressing excitement and doesn't really want him to leave town.This is an example of
A) pragmatics.
B) linguistic relativity.
C) semantics.
D) syntax.
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