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.
Death is undoubtedly the theme of Don DeLillo’s White Noise. Murray Siskind, a College-on-the-Hill professor who is obsessed with the exploration and reinterpretation of American popular culture, talks about the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and the German mentor of Jack Gladney has been using the Egyptian Book of the Dead, translated into German. The core episode of the story is the Airborne Toxic Event, the associate of Heinrich (Jack’s teenage son), Orestes Mercator, dreams of becoming one of the great figures in the Guinness Book by challenging and confronting death by enclosing himself in a glass pen jam-packed with poisonous snakes, and Heinrich challenges an imprisoned mass murderer in a chess game. The scholarly expertise of Jack c
... Show MoreParties as active units in this process in order to work must have access to sources of funding in order to maintain their political presence in society and participate in the process of electoral competition, To win the election, bolstering the huge role that money has played in influencing the principle of equality among contestants in the elections. Those who own money will have a greater chance of winning the elections while less competitive opportunities for others who do not own the money or what they own does not give them the competitive ability to win elections. From this point of view, controlling political finance through legal regulation and institutional, media and popular monitoring has become an important requirement
... Show MoreThe article aims to study the crisis of political change from three Phases . The first focuses on the crises of political legitimacy and democratic postponement, as fundamental issues in analyzing the phenomenon of power struggle through the dialectic between the concept of historical legitimacy and institutional fragility from the beginning of statehood in 1962 to the stage of multi-partyism and the cessation of the electoral process in the 1990s. While the second focuses on the question of the monopoly of power in the post-terrorism and national reconciliation according to considerations Political, social and security measures to prolong the life of the regime and avoid the demands of political change brought about
... Show MoreThis paper identifies and describes the textual densities of ideational metaphors through the application of GM theory (Halliday, 1994) to the textual analysis of two twentieth century English short stories: one American (The Mansion (1910-11), by Henry Jackson van Dyke Jr.), and one British (Home (1951), by William Somerset Maugham). One aim is to get at textually verifiable statistical evidence that attests to the observed dominance of GM nominalization in academic and scientific texts, rather than to fiction (e.g. Halliday and Martin (1993). Another aim is to explore any significant differentiation in GM’s us by the two short- story writers. The research has been carried out by identifying, describing, and statistically analysi
... Show Moreإن التغيرات السريعة والبعيدة المدى في تكنولوجيا المعلومات القائمة على أساس الالكترونيات الدقيقة تساعد في حدوث تحول في صورة الاقتصاد العالمي، وكذلك تساعد في تغيير المزايا التنافسية للبلدان، وربط المؤسسات البعيدة ببعضها البعض، ونشر الخدمات المالية على نطاق عالمي، وكذلك إثارة مشكلات جديدة او العكس فتح فرص جديدة أمام تنمية ونمو أفقر البلدان .
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... Show MoreThe objective of the research is to find the best method to estimate rice crop through out evaluating the applied methods of stratified random sampling .By using different sorts of sampling estimators, a comparison was held among the variances of the mean for simple random sampling, stratified random sampling(var()) and separate regression estimator. The results indicate that the separate regression estimator give best estimations. The approximate cum.f4/5 method was used to determine the optimum stratum boundaries, new strata was put and then var () was calculated .In comparison with strata used nowadays in central statistical organization, the new strata led to obvious decrease in the variance. The stratified mean wa
... Show Moreتُعد جريمة التحرش الجنسي بالأطفال عبر الإنترنيت"الدعارة المصوره أو الإباحية الجنسية" Child Pornographyأحدى جرائم استغلال الأطفال، ومن أسوء جرائم وسائل الإعلام والإتصال بأنواعها كافة لأنها تستغل الأطفال فعلياً، كما أنها من الجرائم التي تمس الأخلاق والآداب العامة للمجتمع وفقاً لقوانين مختلف الدول، وقد زاد انتشارها خلال ثمانينات وتسعينيات القرن الماضي، ويرجع الفضل في ذلك للثورة التكنولوجية الهائلة التي شهدها
... Show Moreشهدت السينما اثناء عمرها الممتد عبر نحو قرن من الزمن احداثا وتطورات سياسية مهمة، فضلا عن التطورات التقنية والفنية وكانت السينما حاضرة وشاهدة على احداث سياسية بارزة مر بها العالم قبل واثناء وبعد الحربين العالميتين الاولى والثانية وفترة الحرب الباردة وما بعده. وقد حظيت السينما اثناء النصف الاول من القرن العشرين باهتمام كبير من قبل الدول الكبرى والسياسيين فيها فضلا عن الاقبال التجاري للشرك
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تكمن الأهمية القصوى لعلم الصرف في رصد الأخطاء اللغوية من كونه يضع تصنيفات منوعة لأشكال البنية، وأحوالها المختلفة، وما يطرأ عليها من تغيير، ومما يجدر ذكره أن الصرف إجمالاً يُعني ويشتمل على ضربين من عنايته بأبنية الكلم، الأول : بيان ما يطرأ على بنية الكلمة من تغييرات لضروب مختلفة من المعاني، والثاني: يكون معنياً ببيان ما يطرأ على بنية الكلمة من تغييرات غير دا
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