Angela asked someone she worked with “How are you?” and she was surprised when her coworker told her she was in the middle of a divorce. Angela walked away thinking her coworker was inappropriate and rude. The misunderstanding in this interaction was caused by _________.

a. chronemics.
b. semantics.
c. syntactics.
d. pragmatics.

d. pragmatics.

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