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 nature of the political system of any country in the international system must have an impact on the policy of the State, whether in the interior or exterior, both regional and international, Turkey is one of the most important countries in the Middle East, which have a place and effectiveness on the surrounding environment, hence the importance of research lies in its political system and the transfer of power in it and its transformation from the form of the parliamentary system to the presidential system of the repercussions of the task and mutual effects between Turkey and the countries of the surrounding region in terms of the extent of achieving political stability in the Turkish interior or not and how this can be refl
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The advent of UNHCR reports has given rise to the uniqueness of its distinctive way of image representation and using semiotic features. So, there are a lot of researches that have investigated UNHCR reports, but no research has examined images in UNHCR reports of displaced Iraqis from a multimodal discourse perspective. The present study suggests that the images are, like language, rich in many potential meanings and are governed by clearly visual grammar structures that can be employed to decode these multiple meanings. Seven images are examined in terms of their representational, interactional and compositional aspects. Depending on the results, this study concludes that the findings support the visual grammar theory and highlight the va
... Show MoreThe main problem of the current study concentrates on applying critical discourse analysis to examine textual, discoursal and social features of reduplication in some selected English newspaper headlines. The main aim of the current study is to analyze the linguistic features of reduplication by adopting Fairclough's three-dimensional model (2001). This study sets forth the following hypotheses: (1) English headline – newspapers comprise various textual, discoursal and social features ;(2)the model of analysis is best suited for the current study.To achieve the aims and verify the hypotheses, a critical discourse analysis approach is used represented by Fairclough's socio-cultural approach (2001).The present study has examined the use of
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Comparison is the most common and effective technique for human thinking: the human mind always judges something new based on its comparison with similar things that are already known. Therefore, literary comparisons are always clear and convincing. In our daily lives, we are constantly forced to compare different things in terms of quantity, quality, or other aspects. It is known that comparisons are used in literature in order for speech to be clear and effective, but when these comparisons are used in everyday speech, it is in order to convey the meaning directly and quickly, because many of these expressions used daily are comparisons. In our research, we discussed this comparison as a means of metaphor and expression in Russia
... Show Moreالتقت ( الأكاديمي ) الزميل ناظم حامد، التدريسي في قسم الفنون التشكيلية، في كلية الفنون الجميلة، الذي كان قد أمضى ردحًا من الزمن؛ يدرّس في إحدى الجامعات العربية، وقد توجّهتْ له مجلة الأكاديمي بسؤال عن تجربته العملية والعلمية هناك، مقارنة بالتجربة التي نحن عليها في كلية الفنون الجميلة. أجاب: أقول، وللأسف الشديد، هناك فروق كبيرة جدًّا على المستوى الإداري والتعليمي، والأسف يتضاعف حين أقول بأنني درّست في بلد عر
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وضح البحث أهمية العلم وتعلمه وحفظه مستدلا بالآيات القرآنية والأحاديث النبوية، وقد ورد في الحديث فضل من حفظ أربعين حديثا، وتفنن علماء الإسلام في ذكر الأربعين، فمنهم من جعلها في أصول الدين كالأربعين النووية، ومنهم من جعلها في مسألة معينة من مسائل الفقه كالصلاة أو الصيام أو الزكاة أو الحج أو الجهاد أو في فضل قيام الليل وغير ذلك، وهناك ر
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ا.م. نرجس حسين زاير
الجامعة المستنصرية
كلية العلوم السياسية
Wisdom in the verse of the al-hateaa
Ass. Prof. Nargis Hussein Zayer
يتأسس المسرح من منظومة من الادوات والعناصر، ويتمظهر فيه نسق مهم الا وهو النص المسرحي، باعتبار النص جسراً للتفاعل مع كل التعديلات التي تعّدل من معنى الكلمة ومعنى المحاكاة ومعنى المرجعيات، ويتكون النص من ملفوظ أدبي مستند على شائجة من العلاقات الانسانية والثقافية تنسحب تحت مسمى الشخصية المسرحيةإن الدراما في ملخصها عرض لنماذج حياتية (بشرية)، أنماط سلوكية وأخلاقية، وأنواع من الرغبات، وطرق متعددة في التفكير تت
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