Hedging is a linguistic avoidance of full commitment or precision. It is the use of a vague language. The main objectives of this study are to: (1) identify and classify the linguistic devices which act as hedges; (2) to examine the semantic functions of these devices. This paper makes use of word class as well as clausal constructions to represent the forms of hedges in relation to certain grammatical categories, namely: adverbials, epistemic verbs, modal verbs, cognitive verbs, hypothetical constructions, anticipatory it-clause, and anticipatory constructions. The text analysed is the first presidential debate between Senator Barak Obama and Senator John McCain on the campus of the University of Mississippi, during the presidential election campaign of the Republican and the Democrat parties in America.The results show that politicians use hedges to mild their language in process to, so that not to be proved wrong later. This justification is that the claims they had already made were only an approximation to the statements.
This present work adopts the analytic and descriptive methodology to recognize and analyze the major challenges faced by the Iraqi government. The study focuses on the press and national partiers’ cabipility of changing and unifying the opinions of the public in a way that serves the Iraqi interest, taking into account the fact that the press is the fourth authority after the three major authorities, (Executive, Legislation and Judicial). The researcher has concluded that the Iraqi press and parties initiated a national front with the Iraqi people against the government’s signature of the treaty of (1930). The national front illustrated that signing the treaty strengthens the authority of the British occupation u
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The study aimed to exposure young university students and students talk programs offered by satellite TV exposure, as it represents these programs great importance Information Public Knowledge in general And the youth in private Including Posed From Opinions And ideas About Different Issues Raised Which Charges Opinion, And that Through Application Study Survey To Sample From Students of Diyala University, the Researcher display Public Accrediting Theory To Information Which Provided Means Media To achieve Objectives And satisfy Needs And hypotheses . The Problem Search was Determined Through Study of students of Diyala University exposure Programs Talk And measured&
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The study has tackled three important variables on the strategic and organizational level, that are : (Administrative skill, strategic Entrepreneurship and organizational flexibility). Through the statistical analysis is, the research hers have sought to identify the relation among them. The study has been applied on a sample of (44) private banks in Iraq. A questionnaire, which has been designed according to a number of international standards, has been used. It's made of (29) items that cover the three variables to test their hypotheses. A number of statistical tools have been used A number of conclusion have been reached and recommendations have also been suggested.
هدفت الدراسة الى التعرف على تأثير التمرينات الخاصة في تطوير بعض القدرات البدنية وأداء المهارات الدفاعية الفردية لدى افراد عينة البحث، اذ أستخدم الباحثان المنهاج التجريبي بتصميم المجموعة الواحدة ذات الاختبار القبلي والبعدي، وأختار الباحثان مجتمع البحث بالطريقة العمدية لاعبي منتخبات تربية في محافظة بغداد وعينة البحث تكونت من لاعبي منتخب تربية الكرخ الأولى والبالغ عددهم (12) لاعباً، وتم اختيار عينة البح
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الحمد لله ، والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد رسول الله ، وعلى آله وأصحابه ومن والاه.
أما بعد:
فقد تبارى العلماء لخدمة ديننا الحنيف، توثيقاً، وتحليلاً، ودراسة، مضافاً للتعريف بالأعلام الذين أسهموا في إرساء معالم الدعوة الإسلامية، وقد تباينت أساليب علمائنا الأفذاذ، فلكل كان منهجه وطريقته، مقصدهم في هذا، حبهم لهذا الدين، والذبّ عن العقيدة، ومن هؤلاء الجهابذة، العلامة عبد الله بن ابراهيم الميرغني ا
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