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.
Topic management is the awareness of how speakers deal with initiating, developing, changing, and ending a topic and how they fix the relationship when a misunderstanding occurs. It is such an important unit of conversation as it includes the transition from one strategy to the other to be accomplished in a systematic and orderly manner. These strategies are impaired in dementia patients thus lead to communication breakdown. This study aims at detecting the dementia patients' topic management strategies in selected speeches and answering the questions of which of these strategies are fully or partially detected in these speeches. The researchers use a qualitative method to examine the speeches of those patients and they adopt an eclectic
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The speech delivered by political blocs and parties and broadcasted by satellite channels, social and communication media has different ideologies and orientations: moderate speech calling for calm or one raising crises.The latter is considered very challenging due to its local and international reference., this paper aims at uncovering these challenges especially during the political crisis witnessed in Iraq. This paper sheds light on the most important crisis that spread in public opinion, broadcasted by satellite, and raised by politicians who are competing to gain authority leading to a lack of peoples, confidence in them.This matter should not be neglected at all; e |
BN Rashid, AKF Jameel, Al- Ustath: Quarterly Scientific Journal, 2017 - Cited by 15
This research examines the phenomenon of the Arabic language repeated in the Qur'an and poetry, as some morphological formulas are valid in their uses and indications in more than one way. search).
The paper tries to explore the grammatical phenomenon of rankshift in Systemic Grammar, a functional grammar that establishes five units or the rank scale , : namely sentence, clause phrase, word and morpheme .Rankshift a Hallidayan term , occurs when a given unit is downgraded or shifted down the rank scale and operates further down its rank or a rank equal to itself as when a clause which has to operate in sentence structure operates at q “ qualifier” in a nominal group. The paper , quite significantly, introduces the systemic background that enunciates the systemic theory whose organising concept system rather than structure. The paper then, grammatically explores rankshifted elements, successive rankshifting, degrees of rankshifting
... Show Moreللنباتات على اختلاف انواعها واشكالها مكانة كبيرة في حياة البشرية،وظفها الانسان في العديد من استخداماته بدءا بالفنون ثم لم يلبث ان لجأ اليها طلبا للحماية فصنع من جذوعها واوراقها مسكنا يتقي بها مخاطر الطبيعة.تتناول الدراسة جانبا من استخدامات النبات في حضارة العراق القديمة حيث عده اهلها بمثابة قوة سحرية تحمل سر الحياة الابدية التي كان ولازال الانسان ينشدها،ونسبوا كذلك اليه قدرته على الشفاء من العقم.من هذا ا
... Show Moreأن الفضاء المسرحي هو الداعم المرئي للنص أو للحدث المقدم , انه العرض التصويري المادي أو الوهمي الذي يتم فيه الحدث , فهو المكان الذي تتصارع فيه الشخوص , والنص المسرحي تبنيه وتكونه عناصر كثيرة منها الفضاء الدرامي , الذي يعد دعامة مهمة من دعامات النص والتي يوليها المؤلف اهتماما كبيراً . آذ يعد الفضاء الدرامي الجانب البصري الذي يقدمه المؤلف , ويتم بنائه في خيال القارئ أو المتلقي عن طريق النص المسرحي نفسه , والسؤال ال
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