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.
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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Language always conveys ideologies that represent an essential aspect of the world we live in. The beliefs and opinions of an individual or community can be organized, interacted with, and negotiated via the use of language. Recent researches have paid attention to bullying as a social issue. They have focused on the psychological aspect of bullying rather than the linguistic one. To bridge this gap, the current study is intended to investigate the ideology of bullying from a critical stylistic perspective. The researchers adopt Jeffries' (2010) critical stylistics model to analyze the data which is five extracts taken from Hunt’s Fish in a Tree (2015). The analysis demonstrates
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مفهومية فن الفخار في عصور قبل التاريخ في العراق
دخلت حركة الإصلاحات العثمانية العراق مع تولي مدحت باشا ولاية بغداد (1869 -1872) وكان لذلك اثر كبير في احداث تغيير جذري للمجتمع العراقي ، بدء من اجراء إصلاحات إدارية عززت من نظام الحكم المركزي وسعت الى التقليل من مظاهر الفوضى داخل المجتمع وصولا الى تكوين الوعي السياسي الجمعي والنخبوي للمجتمع العراقي ، منذ النصف الثاني للقرن التاسع عشر حتى مطلع القرن لعشرين. من هنا جاءت فكرة موضوع البحث للاستفادة التاريخية
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تعد استخدامات المرأة ومشاركتها في تنفيذ العمليات الإرهابية لتنظيمات داعش من أخطر الظواهر الاجتماعية والسياسية والعسكرية في مجتمعنا الإسلامي والعربي، لما يحكم هذا المجتمع من عادات وتقاليد وأعراف وقيم لا تستطيع المرأة أن تخرج على السيطرة عليها، إذ اعتادت المجتمعات العربية بخاصة والإسلامية بعامة أن ترى المرأة بمكانه صاحبة الإيمان المحبة لأسرتها الحرة الأبية والمربية الفاضلة الرافضة كل القيم السلبية التي ت
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حاول البحث دراسة أحوال الأدب العربى تحت الممالك أو الإمارات الإسلامية فى قارة أفريقيا الخضراء. ولضيق نطاق البحث ركزنا الجهود علي إمارة إلورن فى نيجيريا لتكون مرآة تنعكس فيها آثار هذه الممالك فى الأدب. ولتحقيق الغرض المنشود من البحث عرضنا نبذة طفيفة عن تاريخ ظهور الممالك الإسلامية فى قارة أفريقيا وأنواعها و
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The organizations recognize what the effective role of time management in achieving competitive advantage and success. But the effectiveness depends on integrating some organization actions which perspective are relating with it by significance relations and high affect. From this the research problem is arising، which descripe the recognizing of libraries managers for the role of some organizational actions. The samples from (40) libraries managers are chosen.
The major results: these organizational actions are related and affected on the time management if integrated with one anothers more than if related in separate. &nbs
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Online communication on social networks has become a never-given-up way of expressing and sharing views and opinions within the realm of all topics on earth, and that is that! A basis essential in this is the limits at which "freedom of expression" should not be trespassed so as not to fall into the expression of "hate speech". These two ends make a base in the UN regulations pertaining to human rights: One is free to express, but not to hate by expression. Hereunder, a Critical Discourse Analysis in terms of Fairclough's dialectical-relational approach (2001) is made of Facebook posts (being made by common people, and not of official nature) targeting Islam and Muslims. This is made so as to recognize these instances of "speech" a
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Artificial intelligence is what helps in the transition to digitization or digital transformation, which is intended to represent files, images, and objects with separate points, which means the transformation from the traditional system that contains traditional drawbacks to the electronic system, and this transformation requires knowledge of the methods and means that suit this transformation, so the transformation to Digitization has now become a necessary matter for solving all contemporary problems. Most importantly, it is eliminating complex procedures and government red tape by turning to electronic governments, and eliminating everything that is complex, accumulated, and difficult to retrieve. This is what we will address in the sub
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