Adult ESL ELL Advanced Quiz
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An advanced ESL learner wants to respectfully disagree with a dominant viewpoint in a diverse seminar group. She has studied three strategies: (1) using a concession-contrast structure ('While X is true, Y suggests otherwise'), (2) using epistemic hedges ('It seems to me that...'), and (3) appealing to shared evidence ('If we look at the data together...'). She decides to use only strategy 2 throughout the discussion. A pragmatics instructor warns her that relying exclusively on strategy 2 carries a specific risk that strategies 1 and 3 do not. What is that risk?
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