Juanita Asks Her Classmate Tamara What She Thinks About a Student

Multiple Choice

Juanita asks her classmate Tamara what she thinks about a student who's new to the program, Rebecca. Tamara responds, "Hmmm, I actually don't know Rebecca very well; but she seems . . . interesting," and then quickly walks away. Juanita is left unsure whether Tamara was describing Rebecca in a positive or negative way. Juanita's uncertainty of how Tamara actually feels about Rebecca is due to the _____ she provided.

A) extralinguistic information
B) heuristics
C) linguistic relativity
D) figurative language