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.
المستخلص: تناول البحث الحالي " علاقة العوامل الحرجة لنقل المعرفة في فرص النجاح الاستراتيجي " إذ يحظى موضوعيّ نقل المعرفة والنجاح الاستراتيجي باهتمام متزايد لكونهما من الموضوعات المهمة والمعاصرة، والتي لها تأثير كبير على وجود المنظمات ومستقبلها. ويهدف البحث الى الوقوف على العوامل الحرجة لنقل المعرفة في بيئة التعليم الأهلي العالي والتي تُمكن ( الكليات الأهلية المبحوثة ) من تحقيق نجاحها الاستراتيجي وقد سعى الب
... Show MoreIFRS 2010 ) صدر المعيار 9 - نتيجة الأزمة المالية العالمية التي حدثت عام ( 2007الذي كان يعترف بالخسائر الائتمانية بعد وقوعها أي التي IAS لمعالجة القصور في المعيار 39حدثت فعلاً وبشكل متأخر مما تسبب في حدوث الأزمة، حيث جاء المعيار الجديد لمعالجة هذاالقصور من خلال التنبؤ بالخسائر الائتمانية قبل حدوثها مما يساعد المصارف على اتخاذالاحتياطات اللازمة من خلال دراسة المؤشرات التي يمكن ان تدق ناقوس الخطر لحدوث مثل هذهالأزما
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الملخص: إن الجدل بين القانونيّ والأخلاقيّ يعدُّ إشكالاً لا قرارة له، ولا نهاية لطريق النّقاش فيه ، فبين من يدمجهما وبين من يسوِّغ أحدهما بالآخر، و ثالث ينتصر لجهة بالضد من الأُخرى، نجد أنفسنا أمام منجزات فلسفيّة كبيرة ومتشعبة، وإذا ما أضفنا البحث في قدرة الاتفاق المثاليّ الخلقيّ على إنشاء بيئة سلميّة وواقعيّة تتخذ التّعايش والتّضامن معياراً لها، وإنَّني لأجد في ايمانويل كانط Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) وجون رولز John R
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The entrance process re-engineering one of the main entrances of administrative and technology appropriate to keep pace with scientific progress and the continuing changes in business environment and for the purpose of achieving the goal sought by the organizations in the pursuit of rapid developments and renewable energy in the market competition by changing its operations and activities of the radical change which contributes to an effective contribution to reducing the cost of product or service taking into account the quality improvement in the management of change to keep the increase value and speed of placing on the market to meet customer needs and desires to achieve and attain the goal of growth and stability in the market under th
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This study explores the language used in reporting political headlines conducting a rhetorical stylistic analysis. It is based on showing the effect of the rhetorical stylistic relations in news reporting. The aim is to investigate the structure adopted in reporting political news. It argues that the rhetorical stylistic devices are necessary and applicable to non-literary texts, i.e. political headlines to evaluate language use in the representation of non-literary texts. The analysis was carried out on data selected from the British broadsheet The Guardian and the American New York Times newspaper headlines. The data were examined and subjected to a contrastive analysis incorporating rhetorical and stylistic tools to discern h
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BN Rashid, Social Sciences, 2022
This study includes Estimating scale parameter, location parameter and reliability function for Extreme Value (EXV) distribution by two methods, namely: -
- Maximum Likelihood Method (MLE).
- Probability Weighted Moments Method (PWM).
Used simulations to generate the required samples to estimate the parameters and reliability function of different sizes(n=10,25,50,100) , and give real values for the parameters are and , replicate the simulation experiments (RP=1000)
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Recently, women's rape has been a pervasive problem in the Iraqi society. Thus, it has become necessary to consider the role of language and its influence on the common beliefs and opinions about rape in the Iraqi society. Thus, taking into consideration the critical role of language and its impact on the perception of human reality and the social development based on people's beliefs and principles of life has become highly indispensable. Therefore. The aim of this article is to address this problem critically from legislation and social norms in NGOs' reports (2015; 2019) with reference to some provisions from the Iraqi Panel Code (1969; 2010). Therefore, the researchers examine the discursive strategies and ideological viewpoints in t
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