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 research has discussed the origins of ESP, addressed key notions about ESP and examined issues in ESP syllabus design. The content of the paper was determined by a need identified based on my experience as an ESL instructor designing and delivering the content-based language program - Language Preparation for the Cadets and Employment in the Iraqi College of Police . These issues, where possible, have been supported by current and pertinent academic literature. It is my sincerest hope that these observations will lend insight into the challenges facing the ESL instructor acting as ESP syllabus developer.
There are many ways to communicate a story, one can tell it, sing it, act it, write it, film it and can draw it. Each form of storytelling has its unique characteristics that separate it from the other forms. These distinguishing characteristics of each form does not indicate the superiority of one form over the other, on the contrary, it indicates the human ability to be creative on many levels. As students of literature, only the written form of a story is taken into account. One reason for the negligence of other forms of storytelling might be that singing and filming a story is not related to literature. But there has been a form of storytelling that uses words along with pictures which eventually became a genre of novels called grap
... Show MoreIn this research, the problem of multi- objective modal transport was formulated with mixed constraints to find the optimal solution. The foggy approach of the Multi-objective Transfer Model (MOTP) was applied. There are three objectives to reduce costs to the minimum cost of transportation, administrative cost and cost of the goods. The linear membership function, the Exponential membership function, and the Hyperbolic membership function. Where the proposed model was used in the General Company for the manufacture of grain to reduce the cost of transport to the minimum and to find the best plan to transfer the product according to the restrictions imposed on the model.
The study aimed to examine the impact of audit committee characteristics on the practices of intellectual capital disclosure in the annual reports of Bank and Insurance companies listed on Palestine Exchange, through performing content analysis of the annual reports for the study sample which totaled thirteen companies, including six banks and seven insurance companies. To achieve the study objectives, the study employed a content analysis approach in order to analyze the content of the intellectual capital disclosure practice, in addition, the study used cross-sectional with longitudinal data for time series for a period of time between 2014-2019. The empirical results indicated that financial expertise and the number of meeting
... Show Moreالحمد لله رب العالمين وأفضل الصلاة وأتم التسليم على خير خلقه محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين .. فقد عنى علماء الأصول بموضوع دلالات الألفاظ اعتناءً بالغاً لاسيما موضوع اللفظ العام والخاص وما يتعلق بهما من مباحث ؛ لأهميته في فهم المعنى المراد واستنباط الأحكام من النصوص الشرعية ، وقد تناولت في هذا البحث جانباً من مباحث اللفظ العام ألا وهو (اللفظ العام المراد به الخصوص) وتطبيقاته في آيات أحكام سورة ا
... Show Moreبرز في بداية القرن الماضي اهتمام الباحثين في بعض دول العالم بجمع ودراسة الارث الموسيقي لشعوبهم من خلال ما اكتشفوه من دور لهذه الدراسات في تحديد الهوية الموسيقية لمبتكري ومؤدي ومتلقي هذا الارث .وقد قام كثير من الدول العالم وخصوصا في اوربا وامريكا بانشاء مراكز بحثية خاصة تعنى بجمع وحفظ وتصنيف وتحليل مواد ارثهم الشعبي ومن ثم تحديد سماته وخصائصه الموسيقيةاما في العراق وبرغم تعدد وتنوع اشكال التراث والموروث ال
... Show Moreالحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على نبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وآله وصحبه وسلم اجمين.
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فان موضوع هذا البحث هو (اسرار المبالغة في صيغ المفردات في معجم العين) ، وقد جعلت موضوع المبالغة في معجم العين ؛ لان كتاب العين يعد باكورة التأليف المعجمي عند العرب ، والطريقة التي فتقها الخليل بن احمد الفراهيدي في هذا المعجم عند العرب عُدت من اكبر المدارس المعجمية في مضمار التأليف ال
... Show MoreJournalistic discourse is a fertile through which most of the segments of the society interact in all their platforms: intellectual, cultural, social, and various settings between the vital structures of the state; which makes it the link between the groups and segments of the society.
The role of discourse, moreover, engages in a vital way by establishing a culture of debate on controversial issues that provided a space in the different visions and differing perceptions on how to formulate the discourse and the magnitude of vocabulary for the diagnosis of these issues. Since there is no system of any community empty of the emergence of issues reflecting the public interest which is necessary is reflected in the context discourse
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The world witness quality jumps under radical change in the management and work styles, through adopting organizational learning as a process of continuous improvements in response to environmental stimulus, in the knowledge age and turbulent competitive environment the organizational success concept is shift from the view narrow for financial performance and marketshare to long term view which focus on building strategic capabilities that provide a sustainable competitive advantage.
Considering the strategic role assumed for the companies of the Ministry of Construction and Housing to play it, these companies have been chosen to be the field in which questions of th
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