Discourse markers are expressions used to connect sentences to what comes before or after and indicate a speaker's attitude to what he is saying.As linguistic items, they have important functions in discourses of various styles or registers. And being connective elements, discourse markers relate sentences, clauses and paragraphs to each other. "One of the most prominent function of discourse markers, however, is to signal the kinds of relations a speaker perceives between different parts of the discourse". (Lenk 1997: 2) Through political discourse, different types of discourse markers are used. This paper deals with the importance and functions of discourse markers and tries to shed light on the kinds of discourse markers used in political speech through analyzing the speech of the American president, Barack Obama, depending on Hyland and Tse’s (2004) classification of discourse markers; interpersonal and textual markers. The results show that these discourse markers function as means ofsocial interaction aimed at influencing the nation.
The present study is concerned with the writer's ideologies towards violence against women. The study focuses on analyzing violence against women in English novel to see the extent the writers are being affected and influenced by their genders. It also focuses on showing to what extent the writer's ideologies are reflected in their works. Gender influences social groups ideologies; therefore, when a writer discusses an issue that concerns the other gender, they will be either subjective or objective depending on the degree of influence, i.e., gender has influenced their thoughts as well as behaviors. A single fact may be presented differently by different writers depending on the range of a
... Show MoreThe research is an attempt to investigate experimentally the influence of teacher’s errors correction and students’ errors correction on teaching English at the College of Physical Education for Women. Errors are seen as a natural way for developing any language but teachers are puzzled the way they can correct these errors. So, this research gives some idea of using two types of errors correction. The sample of the research is female students of the first year stage at the College of Physical Education for Women of the academic year 2009-2010. The whole population of the research is (94) students while the sample is (64). Thus, the sample represents 68% from the population of the research. The sample represents It is hypothesized th
... Show MoreWaste is the most common phenomenon in the educational systems. Such a waste should reduce its efficiency and weaken its productivity which is best represented by failing and dropouts .thus resources meant to develop the educational institutions quality and quantity–wise would be wasted .in other words the return of the investments allotted to develop the educational system would fall short of the aims . The consequences would worst in the primary learning field. The research has three chapters: The first chapter is about significance of the research and its aims in addition to a review of literature. The second chapter is about the concept of dropping out of schools in the primary learning sector plus a history of the phenomenon .Thir
... Show MoreThis research in the philosophy of ethics, we have written under the title (Sensory And Mental Dialogue In The Philosophy Of Ethics -Criticism And Analysis-). Consists of three sections; first: talked dealt within the second part; we writhe about controversial consepts of sensory and mental. Then we about the concept of common philosophical doctrines, either in the third section we talked about the concept of the mind doctrines that secured sence mainly studies in philosophy. The purpose for which our finding in this research is to show that undeniable sense or exceeded in any doctrine of mentale doctrines, just as the mind can not be bypassed or undeniable doctrines sensory ... So as to complete the theory that we have in our thesis to
... Show MoreThe theme of unity of the topics that figured prominently Quran, cited preachers and scholars verses function on the unity and sense, to lift the nation from Hdtha, saved from the crisis, in an attempt to reunite and heal the rift, and re nation to unity and strength, and conduct on the path religion True, The Quran the unit is the Constitution of the Islamic nation and a safety valve, a strong rope of God. The following us in our research and Rod talk about it lonely in the Quran, and the statement of some form, and means its findings, including: (obey Allah and His Messenger, and referring to the Quran and Sunnah, and talk by saying better, reform between the brothers, call wisdom and good advice, etc.. ..), as Pena main obstacles and
... Show MoreTrading global discourse topic as one of the other entrances to world peace, and the most important reasons for co-existence of intellectual and lumpy, and there Important issue related to a fundamental issue of the other cases are denied and the exclusion of others, Trading global discourse topic as one of the other entrances to world peace, and the most important reasons for co-existence of intellectual and lumpy, and there Important issue related to a fundamental issue of the other cases are denied and the exclusion of others, The stories of the prophets and their people the position of calling them and thought the new Massadik it. have found through research that there are two types of methods in the exclusion are as follows:
... Show MoreThe experiment was conducted in two stages: first stage: determination of the most effective dose of Cyperus rotundus tubers aquatic extract in male rats for 5 days, which was concentrated as (200 mg/kg body weight). The second stage was designed to observe and test the protective effects of C. rotundus tubers aquatic extract in the liver and kidney functions of male rats exposed to cadmium chloride poisoning (5 mg/kg bw) for 30 days. The animals were divided into (4) groups within each group (5) animals weighted (200-220g). The results of oral dose of cadmium chloride showed a significant increase of (P˂0.05) in the activity of both enzymes Alanine aminotransferas
... Show MoreIt was recorded that Terpinen-4-ol has an anti-parasitic properties, so it will be noteworthy to intensify the studies about this compound.
This study aims to test the effectiveness of terpinen-4-ol on amastigote forms of Leishmania parasite in macrophages.
This effect was studied by adding increasing concentrations of Terpinen-4-ol to culture wells containing mouse macrophages that were previously incubated with the promastigote forms of the parasites for 24 hours .Then, they were incubated for another 24 hours with increasing concentrations of Terpinen-4-ol. After, Parasites were enumerated into macrophages in wells either treated with Terpinen-4-ol or in control wells.
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... Show More Purpose - The study aimed at evaluating the accounting system of the Iraqi political parties, which is applied according to legislative texts, and then the ability to provide accounting information to evaluate the strategic performance and control of the party's operational and financial performance.
Findings- The research found that the unified accounting system applied to political parties does not provide relevance informations to judge the performance of the political party, the researcher a proposal for an accounting system that provides the necessary information to measure and monitor the performance of Iraqi political parties can be presented. The