Despite scholars’ attention on the typology of modality as a linguistic phenomenon, yet the use of modality across varieties of English is not well visible in communication-based researches that take semantics, pragmatics and discourse issues as the objects for their investigation. The paper generates its data from six M. A. dissertations from Nigerian University and equal number of the M. A. dissertations from Iraqi University to qualitatively and quantitatively investigate the contextual use of modality within the pragmatic perspective. The data analysis reveals that modality such as usuality, potentiality, necessity, probability and obligation in the dissertations encapsulates interpersonal and authorial voice in which the meaning of a clause is qualified to reflect the writer’s judgment of the likelihood of the proposition it expresses being true. The study findings also show the divergent use of modality to indicate certainty, possibility, probability and evidence and the nature of their illocutionary forces in the academic writings through verb modals and lexically modalized presentations in the MA. Dissertations that form the data of the study.
Colonialism as a movement was very popular in Europe more than two centuries before. It aimed at controlling and exploiting several countries in Africa and Asia in addition to imposing their power and control on uninhabited islands. It received adherence and criticism as well. There also appeared activists and nations who stood against it and its practices. English novels discussed this notion greatly by pointing out the bad practices of the colonizers and how the colonized received them. This paper explores two narrative fictions that tackle the different aspects of the term. While Defoe, in Robinson Crusoe (1719), shows a colonial European figure who expresses his superiority, Wells, in “The Country of the Blind” (1904), deconstructs
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مع مطلع القرن الحادي والعشرين فأن الصراع على امدادات المياه الحيوية هو خطر قائم على الدوام في جميع مناطق العالم حيث يتجاوز الطلب على الماء بشكل كبير العرض القائم ولكون اغلب المصادر الرئيسة للمياه وخاصة في المنطقة العربية يشترك فيها بلدان أو أكثر ولان هذه الدول نادرا ما توافق على الاجراءات التفاوضية الخاصة بأقتسام الامداد المتاح من المياه مما يعني زيادة الخلافات على الوصول الى الم
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Physicians are infrequently selected to serve in the yearlong role of Jefferson Science Fellow (JSF) as senior science advisor for the US Department of State or the United States Agency for International Development. The authors discuss the role of a JSF in promoting “science diplomacy” from the perspective of one alumnus, who sites examples of ongoing, long-term collaborative projects including one focusing on medical education reform in Iraq that would not have been possible without the JSF program. More than 3 decades of political and social unrest, terrorism, the internal displacement of millions of Iraqi citizens, the arrival of Syrian refugees, international sanctions, and the effect of fluctuating oil prices that fund education i
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Cognitive stylistics also well-known as cognitive poetics is a cognitive approach to language. This study aims at examining literary language by showing how Schema Theory and Text World Theory can be useful in the interpretation of literary texts. Further, the study attempts to uncover how readers can connect between the text world and the real world. Putting it differently, the study aims at showing how the interaction between ‘discourse world’ and ‘text world’. How readers can bring their own experience as well as their background knowledge to interact with the text and make interpretive connections. Schema and text world theories are useful tools in cognitive stylistic studies. The reader's perception o
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Cognitive stylistics also well-known as cognitive poetics is a cognitive approach to language. This study aims at examining literary language by showing how Schema Theory and Text World Theory can be useful in the interpretation of literary texts. Further, the study attempts to uncover how readers can connect between the text world and the real world. Putting it differently, the study aims at showing how the interaction between ‘discourse world’ and ‘text world’. How readers can bring their own experience as well as their background knowledge to interact with the text and make interpretive connections.
Schema and text world theories are useful tools in cognitive stylistic stud
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تركزت نفاط البحث وأهدافه في اعداد برنامج تدريبي باسلوب التدريب المتقطع المتناوب الذي هو مزيج مابين السرعة والقوة وتاثيره في مستوى تركيز الكيتونات و الحامض الرايبوزي (206) لدى لاعبي كرة السلة.مجتمع البحث تم اختيارهم من لاعبي النخبة (الدوري الممتاز) بكرة السلة للموسم( 2023_2022) من لاعبي الدفاع الجوي للمتقدمين والبالغ عددهم (16 لاعبا)، استخدم الباحث الاسلوب التجريبي بتصميم المجموعتين (الضابطة والتجريبية)، فترة ا
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تعد النماذج متعددة المستويات من اهم النماذج الواسعة الاستعمال في تطبيق وتحليل البيانات التي تتصف بكون المشاهدات تتخذ الشكل الهرمي، وفي بحثنا هذا تم تناول انموذج الانحدار اللوجستي الثنائي متعدد المستويات (انموذج حد ثابت عشوائي وميل عشوائي )، هنا تبرز اهمية البحث ان نماذج الانحدار الاعتيادية تقوم بحساب التباين العام للأنموذج وعدم امكانيتها قراءة التباينات والتغيرات بين المستويات لكن في حالة نماذج الانح
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