Topic management is the awareness of how speakers deal with initiating, developing, changing, and ending a topic and how they fix the relationship when a misunderstanding occurs. It is such an important unit of conversation as it includes the transition from one strategy to the other to be accomplished in a systematic and orderly manner. These strategies are impaired in dementia patients thus lead to communication breakdown. This study aims at detecting the dementia patients' topic management strategies in selected speeches and answering the questions of which of these strategies are fully or partially detected in these speeches. The researchers use a qualitative method to examine the speeches of those patients and they adopt an eclectic model including the four strategies of topic management; they are: initiating of (Button & Casey, 1985), developing of (Leo & Thomas, 1998), changing of (Greatbach, 1986), and ending the topic of (Heydon, 2005). According to the findings of the study, patients with dementia are capable of developing conversational topics, but they are unable to initiate, change, or end the topics.
This research involves the civilized vision of the trends and approaches of philosophical thought in the Islamic Orient, whose objectives were to show Islamic philosophy and the pioneers of thought in it and the most important products that crystallized after its emergence in the Islamic world
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... Show MoreThe words in the Holy Qur’an are distinguished by the
accuracy of expression, their elegance, the lightness of their
performance, the harmony of their timbre, as well as the ease of
their pronunciation. We find the coarse words in which the
movement of sounds and the hesitation of the soul are mixed, as
it was distinguished by the abundance of its words indicating the
same meaning without a phenomenon that the reader or the
listener notices
this research talks about the weakness that had happened in the construction of the sentences which effected on the syntactic meaning . it considers an important problems faced the languages .
Using religious characters which come from religion is a significant means that poets applied in their texts. The Iraqi poet Adib Kamal Aldin applied religious characters as an active means helping the theme of the text and playing a great role in expanding the meanings and their implications in the text.
المنازعات والحروب الاهلية في العالم الثالث نموذجاً الصومال وافغانستان
لقد أرسى الفنان العراقي القديم، بلا ريب، الأسس الأولى للفنون فكانت وما زالت أعماله مصدرا مهما للمدارس الفنية كافة منذ العصور التاريخية وما قبلها، وداولتها الحضارات المتعاقبة في أرضه وخارجها حتى أصبح فن الرافدين يطبع كثيرا من خصائصه وسماته على تلك الحضارات. وعندما بزغ نور الإسلام السرمدي وبدد
Illiteracy has spread in the last years, although it was eliminated in the 1980s. The return of illiteracy brings ignorance, illness, backwardness and regression among nations. It has taken many types, mainly alphabetical, scientific and computer illiteracy. Hence, the increasing nature of illiteracy has attracted the attention of governments and societies alike. This may touch the reality of societies starting with their youth unless those, who are in charge, will find workable solutions for the existing problems. The results of the study revealed that there is a real disaster awaiting the next generation after years of stray, and ignorance of the people in charge who are too engaged in getting their privileges to care about this proble
... Show MorePraise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and prayers and peace be upon our master and beloved Muhammad and all his family and companions. As for what follows: The research presented the synonymous and common verbal expressions mentioned in the book Al-Taliq Al-Mughni on Sunan Al-Daraqutni by the scholar Sheikh Shams Al-Haq Muhammad Al-Azeem Abadi