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.
الحمد 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 MoreThe 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
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Debate is a teaching strategy in nursing education that enhances students' critical thinking. Although debate can be an effective teaching strategy, it is not without limitations. This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of debate as a teaching strategy in nursing. Also, evaluating debates and choosing topics are highlighted.
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الحمد 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 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
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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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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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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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ملخّص البحث
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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