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.
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ان المجال الرحب للدراسات القرآنية يقتضي التنويع في البحث ، والكشف عن العلاقة بين المفردات او الألفاظ القرآنية وبيان ما بينها من علاقات ، وأثرا في النص القرآني ، وفي تقديم صورة واضحة تتصف بالدقة العالية ، فضلاً عن البلاغة القرآنية التي تكسب النص حلاوة لا تليق الا بهذا الكتاب الكريم .ومن العلاقات القائمة بين الألفاظ ، العلاقة بين الألفاظ المتناقضة التي ترد في نص واحد ، وهو
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هدف البحث الحالي تعرف " أثر استراتيجية الجدول الإسترجاعي وهرم الافضلية في تحصيل طلاب الصف الثاني اللمتوسط في مادة قواعد اللغة العربيّة "
اجريت الدراسة في العراق – محافظة بغداد / تربية الرصافة 2/ واعتمد الباحث التصميم التجريبي ذو الضبط الجزئي بمجموعتين تجريبيتين ومجموعة ضابطة وكان المنهج المتبع في الدراسة هو المنهج التجريبي. تكون مجتمع البحث من طلاب الصف الثاني المتوسط ف
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