Caitlin told her roommate that she wanted to change her major to Studio Art, but that she was a novice. Her roommate replied, "You mean you'll be a beginner, right? Not that you were forbidden to change your major because you were a nun, right?" The roommate is using which strategy to discover how to resolve the ambiguity of the word novice?

(a) memorizing
(b) contextualizing
(c) stipulating
(d) qualifying
(e) clarifying intent
(f) negotiating


e

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