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.
Edward Albee's career extends to more than fifty years during which he has exposed different images of male and female protagonists mostly within the same frame; domestic instability. Albee's men and women are middle-class couples who find themselves entrapped in a meaningless world. Most, if not all, of Albee's men are detached from their wives due to existential problems or middle- age crises. Women, therefore find themselves obliged to sustain their husbands and marriages alone. Women in Albee's élan are cynical, frustrated, articulate as well as brave, strong and domineering.
Marriage Play is one of Albee’s works that tackled such image of these women. The play was comm
... Show MoreThis article discusses the function of semiotics in political discourse after the socio-political processes taking place in Iraq since 2003 and its role in the development of textual criticisms of some Iraqi politicians, analyzes the reasons for its functioning in the speech of politicians. The research is mainly focused on finding out to what extent political text studies draw on sign systems that can store and transmit information, the nature of its purpose and the use of available fields for the purpose to be achieved. The chief purpose of the study is to investigate and also clarify the symbols and signs appear within the framework of discursive Iraqi politicians, the nature of the symbols used, and the meanings that are include
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أخذت مواضيع اللياقة البدنية من اجل الصحة تفرض نفسها على المساحة البحثية بعد ان أصبحت تكون مطلبا مهما وجواباً شافيا للعديد من المشاكل الناتجة عن طبيعة التعامل مع الحياة العصرية الراهنة ,فالإعمال التي كانت تحتاج إلى ساعات من العمل اليدوي أصبحت تنجز بفعل التكنولوجيا الحديثة بظرف دقائق وبوساطة المعدات والآلات . إن قلة حركة الإنسان وزيادة الأعباء الفكرية والضغوط النفسية والجانب النمطي بأسلوب العمل أدى إلى تحديد
... Show MoreAPDBN Rashid, Review of International Geographical Education Online (RIGEO), 2021
يعد التحليل العاملي Factor Analysis أحد الأساليب الإحصائية المهمة والتي يصعب تنفيذها يدويا ً أو بالألات الحاسبة الصغيرة لذا لاقى الباحثين صعوبة في إستخدامه في البداية بل كان من المستحيل القيام به ، لذا فالمؤلف قد تناول التحيلي العاملي الاستكشافي لكونه إسلوب إحصائي يستخدم في تحليل البيانات ويتطلب شروطا ً لأستخدامه ودقة في مراعاة هذه الشروط ويتطلب أيضا ً معايير يجب أن يتأكد الباحث من توافرها في البيانات وهذا ما تم ت
... Show MoreProverbs are considered as a major source of ancient events and happenings. Similar to other past events related to life, proverbs have many important and famous values in people's life. This study will shed lights on the use of proverbs as short sentences based on long experiences. The aim of the study is to explicate the roles, and the importance of proverbs in our life and how they are used to convey thoughts to people throughout simple words with denotation. Thus, proverbs explicate the truth and experience of our grandfathers when directed for criticism. Few proverbs were used by writers to criticize, mimic and reprint their personalities. Hence, proverbs will achieve portions of the unique roles of understanding. The model to
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الخلاصة
یغوص ھذا البحث في الحقل المتصل بالمعنى لیؤسس "المعنى" بوصفھ صنفاً مھماً ضمن حقل
المعنى ذي الصلة بالمفھوم او الادراك. ویستكشف البحث، لغویاً ، صلات المعنى المختلفة التي تنشأ بین
It is not often easy to identify a certain group of words as a lexical bundle, since the same set of words can be, in different situations, recognized as idiom, a collocation, a lexical phrase or a lexical bundle. That is, there are many cases where the overlap among the four types is plausible. Thus, it is important to extract the most identifiable and distinguishable characteristics with which a certain group of words, under certain conditions, can be recognized as a lexical bundle, and this is the task of this paper.
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Witness the current business environment changes rapidly reflected on the performance of the facility wishing to stay , which is no longer style reaction enough to handle installations with their environment , and quickly began to lose its luster with the emergence of a message and the vision of contemporary business environment from a set of parts interacting with each other and the concept of behavioral includes all dimensions of performance, it is imperative to adopt a system installations influence variables and positive interaction through the development of strategic plans and the use of implementation and follow-up strategies to ensure the effectiveness of the method for meas
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