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.
Artificial intelligence is what helps in the transition to digitization or digital transformation, which is intended to represent files, images, and objects with separate points, which means the transformation from the traditional system that contains traditional drawbacks to the electronic system, and this transformation requires knowledge of the methods and means that suit this transformation, so the transformation to Digitization has now become a necessary matter for solving all contemporary problems. Most importantly, it is eliminating complex procedures and government red tape by turning to electronic governments, and eliminating everything that is complex, accumulated, and difficult to retrieve. This is what we will address in the sub
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عندما نبحث في أدبيات الفكر الإسلامي نجد أن أول مصادره واساسهُ القرآن الكريم ، وأن الموضوع الذي نبحث فيه في ضوء الفكر الإسلامي هو تأثيرات الإعجاز العلمي في القرآن ، فكان لا بدَّ لنا أن نبين تلك التأثيرات في إطار الفكر الإسلامي لبيان أهمية الموضوع بالنسبة للفرد والمجتمع .
وما يميز ما سيتم تناوله في هذا البحث هو موضوعه ، فلا شك أن أهمي
... Show MoreOnline communication on social networks has become a never-given-up way of expressing and sharing views and opinions within the realm of all topics on earth, and that is that! A basis essential in this is the limits at which "freedom of expression" should not be trespassed so as not to fall into the expression of "hate speech". These two ends make a base in the UN regulations pertaining to human rights: One is free to express, but not to hate by expression. Hereunder, a Critical Discourse Analysis in terms of Fairclough's dialectical-relational approach (2001) is made of Facebook posts (being made by common people, and not of official nature) targeting Islam and Muslims. This is made so as to recognize these instances of "speech" a
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الحمد لله رب العالمين وأفضل الصلاة وأتم التسليم على خير خلقه محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين .. فقد عنى علماء الأصول بموضوع دلالات الألفاظ اعتناءً بالغاً لاسيما موضوع اللفظ العام والخاص وما يتعلق بهما من مباحث ؛ لأهميته في فهم المعنى المراد واستنباط الأحكام من النصوص الشرعية ، وقد تناولت في هذا البحث جانباً من مباحث اللفظ العام ألا وهو (اللفظ العام المراد به الخصوص) وتطبيقاته في آيات أحكام سورة ا
... Show Moreبرز في بداية القرن الماضي اهتمام الباحثين في بعض دول العالم بجمع ودراسة الارث الموسيقي لشعوبهم من خلال ما اكتشفوه من دور لهذه الدراسات في تحديد الهوية الموسيقية لمبتكري ومؤدي ومتلقي هذا الارث .وقد قام كثير من الدول العالم وخصوصا في اوربا وامريكا بانشاء مراكز بحثية خاصة تعنى بجمع وحفظ وتصنيف وتحليل مواد ارثهم الشعبي ومن ثم تحديد سماته وخصائصه الموسيقيةاما في العراق وبرغم تعدد وتنوع اشكال التراث والموروث ال
... Show Moreالحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على نبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وآله وصحبه وسلم اجمين.
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فان موضوع هذا البحث هو (اسرار المبالغة في صيغ المفردات في معجم العين) ، وقد جعلت موضوع المبالغة في معجم العين ؛ لان كتاب العين يعد باكورة التأليف المعجمي عند العرب ، والطريقة التي فتقها الخليل بن احمد الفراهيدي في هذا المعجم عند العرب عُدت من اكبر المدارس المعجمية في مضمار التأليف ال
... Show MoreWilla Cather (1873-1947) sought to capture the gradation of human emotion through carefully selected descriptive and narrative touches and firmly controlled management of dramatic scenes, situations, dialogue, and point of view. Cather’s novels and stories drew increasingly upon her personal experiences and memories.
The old settlement of Virginia and the new lands of Nebraska formed the bedding ground for Willa Cather’s talents; so did the layers of memory she found across the North American continent, from New Mexico to Canada. She saw the full-blooded European immigrants, Czechs and Swedes, plowing the unbroken land, on the way up from peasants to proprietors.
 
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The world witness quality jumps under radical change in the management and work styles, through adopting organizational learning as a process of continuous improvements in response to environmental stimulus, in the knowledge age and turbulent competitive environment the organizational success concept is shift from the view narrow for financial performance and marketshare to long term view which focus on building strategic capabilities that provide a sustainable competitive advantage.
Considering the strategic role assumed for the companies of the Ministry of Construction and Housing to play it, these companies have been chosen to be the field in which questions of th
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Radiation treatment has long been the conventional approach for treating nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) tumors due to its anatomic features, biological characteristics, and radiosensitivity. The most common treatment for nasopharyngeal carcinoma is radiotherapy. This study aimed to assess the better quality of radiotherapy treatment techniques using intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT). The VMAT and IMRT are comparative techniques. Forty patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma and forwarded for radiotherapy were treated with both advanced techniques, IMRT and VMAT, using eclipse software from Varian. The x-ray energy was set at 6 MV. The total prescribed dose was 70 Gy. The results show that the
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