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.
The disciplinary system and its role in combating administrative corruption in Iraq
الدلالات الجمالية والتعبيرية للون في الخزف المعاصر في العراق
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حاول البحث دراسة أحوال الأدب العربى تحت الممالك أو الإمارات الإسلامية فى قارة أفريقيا الخضراء. ولضيق نطاق البحث ركزنا الجهود علي إمارة إلورن فى نيجيريا لتكون مرآة تنعكس فيها آثار هذه الممالك فى الأدب. ولتحقيق الغرض المنشود من البحث عرضنا نبذة طفيفة عن تاريخ ظهور الممالك الإسلامية فى قارة أفريقيا وأنواعها و
... Show MoreThe organizations recognize what the effective role of time management in achieving competitive advantage and success. But the effectiveness depends on integrating some organization actions which perspective are relating with it by significance relations and high affect. From this the research problem is arising، which descripe the recognizing of libraries managers for the role of some organizational actions. The samples from (40) libraries managers are chosen.
The major results: these organizational actions are related and affected on the time management if integrated with one anothers more than if related in separate. &nbs
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ان عالمنا المعاصر اجتاحته موجة من التغييرات الشاملة لا على مستوى تأثيرات المستجدات المعرفية وفقا للثورة التكنولوجية اللحظية التطويرية فحسب بل ان المعالم العولمية المنحى الطاغية في التوجهات الايديولوجية او التحولات الرقمية و التوجهات الاقتصادية في مجالات حياتنا الانية كافة اوجدت بمجملها سلسلة من التحديات و الازمات و التطورات على كافة الاصعدة و التي اثرت في الان ذاته في توجهات و حدود السيادة الو
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This article deals with the study of theories about verbal periphrasis as a grammatical construction; the aim of this point it offers good and valid guidelines to improve the linguistic description. The interest in the subject comes from its importance in the process of language teaching for the students of Spanish and to clarify this type of curriculum of this research we analyzed a literary text. From "Zurita"
APDBN Rashid, International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences/ RIMAK, 2023