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.
ٳن العلاقة بين التخطيط والتنمية، تكتسب᾽ شكلها وطبيعتها من خلال دور التخطيط في ٳخضاع عملية التغيير والتحوّل للأوضاع الاقتصادية من وضع الى وضع آخر أكثر تقدما̋ عن طريق ٳعتماد منهج التخطيط لتحديد معالم خطوط السير المجدول زمنيا̋ لعملية التغيير والتحوّل وفقا̋ لرؤية الحكومة وفلسفتها باتجاه الانتقال من وضع ٳقتصادي وٳجتماعي متخلف الى وضع ٳقتصادي وٳجتماعي آخر يسمح بجعل عملية النمو مستمرة، ويمكن تبيّن تلك
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With the increasing rates of cancer worldwide, a great deal of scientific discourse is devoted to arguments and statements about cancer and its causes. Scientists from different fields try to seize any available chance to warn people of the risk of consuming and exposing to carcinogens that have, unfortunately, become essential parts of modern life. The present paper attempts to investigate the proximization strategy through which scientists construct carcinogen risk to enhance people’s preventive actions against these carcinogens. The paper targets the construction which depends on producing the conflict between the values of the people themselves and the contrasting values assigned to carcinogens. To achieve this aim, Cap’s (2
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تكمن مشكلة البحث في السؤال الآتي :
كيف يمكن للصوت حين ينساق في مجرى الفيلم ان يدعم الصورة بجوانب تعبيرية لتجسيد المعنى ؟اهداف البحث :تتجلى أهداف البحث في معرفة السبل الكفيلة للصوت في تجسيد المعنى وامكان خلق التعبير في سرد القصة السينمائية . منهج البحث سوف يعتمد البحث (المنهج الوصفي ) وهذا المنهج (( يعني وصف ما هو كائن)) (1/ ص94) ليتسنى الاطلاع على الأفلام وتحليلها على وفق الخصائص التي ينطوي عليها هذا المنهج والتي
ملخـــص البحــــث
يتناول بحثي المتواضع هذا السرد في شعر الشاعر العراقي عدنان الصائغ من خلال دراسة السرد في قصائده، وقد تناولت السرد في شعره من خلال ضمير المتكلم-السارد والمخاطب مع ذكر انموذجات شعرية تؤكد ما ذهبت اليه في هذا السرد من رؤى ودلالات رمزية.
The study aimed to monitor all the obstacles that stand in the way of the development of women's sports and to develop radical and realistic solutions to advance it and seek its programs to build a strong women's sports community. The descriptive-analytical approach was adopted to monitor the obstacles, by collecting relevant data from the individuals in the research sample using a questionnaire prepared for this purpose that includes (9) axes and (52) phrases distributed to players and practitioners of sports activities in sports forums throughout Iraq except for the Kurdistan region, whose number is (167) girls. The researchers concluded that there are strict social and cultural restrictions, and fears of society's view that prevents girl
... Show MorePride in the poetic Genius in Al-Shareef Al-Murtada's poetry.Pride in the poetic genius is a rich and recurring subject .The poets always compete with each other to show their skills in composing poetry.This subject illustrates the poet's creative talents and his ability to comprehend the vocabulary of the Arabic language.Pride in the poetic gift witnessed great development which was caused by the cultural progress of the Abyssian Age. Such influences are often reflected in poetry because it is an essential part of life.
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