A Linguistics Workbook, 4th Edition

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B. Given the context of utterance, is it likely that communication would indeed
break down? Why or why not?


C. If you argued in question B that it is unlikely that communication would have
broken down, then discuss the following question: Does the Message Model
have any way of capturing the unlikelihood of communication breaking down
in this kind of case? Why or why not? (Review Linguistics, pp. 363-370.)
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