Olivia is writing an email to her professor. She writes it the same way she'd write an email to her friend. Her first line reads, "Hey, how u doing? Yr office hours aren't good for me. Can I pop over now?" What language rule has Olivia violated?
A)minimum lexical access
B)pragmatics
C)speech segmentation
D)morphophonemics
E)generativity

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Olivia has violated the rules of pragmatics, which involve the use of language in social contexts and the ways in which people produce and comprehend meanings through language. Her informal tone and language are not appropriate for the context of communicating with a professor.

Olivia Is Writing an Email to Her Professor