The impact of boredom and fatigue on people's absolute thresholds is highlighted by:

Our co-worker says, "It's awful in here." To understand what she means, we must

A) take into account extralinguistic information, such as location and facial expressions. B) examine the grammatical structure of her comment. C) examine the morphemes in the statement to determine the smaller units of meaning in the sentence. D) ignore nonverbal cues so that we are not distracted.

A person from one part of the United States might ask you

for a glass of "soda," while a person from a different region might ask for a glass of "pop." Still a third person might ask for a "Coke," while a fourth would request a glass of "tonic." All of these individuals want the same thing, but the variation in how they request it demonstrates a A) dialect. B) colloquialism. C) semantic error. D) phonemic shift.