Card 33 / 45: How do semantics and pragmatics differ?
A)
Jokes often depend on pragmatics, but semantics can never be funny.
B)
Pragmatics depends more on the right hemisphere, semantics on t he left.
C)
Only semantics contributes to the meaning of a sentence.
D)
Brain damage can impair semantic processing, but not pragmatic processing.
Answer:
B) Pragmatics depends more on the right hemisphere, semantics on t he left.
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Prof.John GabrieliNeuroscientist
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USA
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