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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