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When four-year-old methuselah sees an elderly gentleman enter a store, he screams, "mommy, look at that old man who looks like he should be dead!" the fact that methuselah does not yet realize that such statements are socially inappropriate indicates that he lacks a complete understanding of the _____ of language?

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The answer is; pragmatics.

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