Joan is eating lunch, and she says to Brad, Can you pass the salt? Brad replies Yes, I can; however, ...

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

Question 2

Suppose that you are telling a story. According to the research on narratives,
 
  a. you are likely to interrupt your story several times to ask your listeners whether they have had similar experiences.
  b. you are not likely to preplan the organization of the narrative before you speak.
  c. the organization of this kind of discourse generally has a fairly clear structure.
  d. people typically begin a narrative by emphasizing the point of the narrative.

Question 3

. Which of the following topics examines the pragmatic aspects of language?
 
  a. the problem of understanding ambiguous sentences
  b. whether we talk differently to a child than to an adult
  c. whether the verb agrees with the appropriate noun
  d. the problem of slips-of-the-tongue