When her professor hands back her term paper and says, "Meet me in my office after class. We need to talk," Dahlia's stomach lurches, a reaction influenced by which rule of language?

a. Syntactic
b. Phonological
c. Pragmatic
d. Semantic

Ans: c. Pragmatic

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A. individual B. procedural C. social D. task

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