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.
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The economic entities view about human resources has been changed from traditional view based on the resources as one of production factors required for achieving the activities that lead to create products in turn for financial substitute embodied in wages, toward contemporary view consider human resources the most important richest investments, a real source for continuing, developing, and achieving competitive advantage for the entity.
From that point, this research dealt with studying the subject of disclosing investment information of human resources in the financial reports of Iraqi economic entities. The research ended with stating a suggestive model for the
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دأبت الأسطورة تفسر للإنسان أصل النشوء والتطور، والقص الأسطوري لنتاج أبراهام ركلسون في قصة "عمود النوارس" من المجموعة القصصية "بيت البريق" يفسر ضمنا أصول يهودية للسكان الأصليين في الولايات المتحدة، سردها ركلسون بأسلوب توراتي نحوا ومعنى لمقاربة النص الأدبي من النص في كتاب المورمون والتوراة. إن النص محاولة تعويضية لليهود المهاجرين للشعور بالألفة في المكان. وظف ركلسون أحداث تاريخية ذكرت في كتاب المورمون ل
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البحث يحدد القيم التي تم التركيز عليها والإهتمام بها في كتاب القراءة الكوردية للصف الثاني في المرحلة الاساسية المقرر, وكذلك القيم التي لم يتم التركيز عليها أو الإهتمام بها و التي تم تجاهلها بصورة كاملة في نفس الكتاب. وتحديد عدد الصفحات التي تم تخصيصها مقارنة مع مساحات الصور التوضيحية والفنون الأدبية في الكتاب المقرر
عرفت لغة الصحافة بأنها الجامعة لصحة الفصحى وسلامتها ووضوح العامية وبساطتها ؟ وتشكل عقبات الفهم في الكتابة الاخبارية محور البحث الى سوء الفهم لدى المتلقي حيث وضع الباحث تساؤلا رئيساً يغطي على كل الجوانب مشكلة البحث وسيتلزم الاجابة عنه. ماعقبات الفهم في الكتابة الاخبارية الاستنتاجات التي توصل إليها الباحث: 1. ركزت الصحيفة على المصطلحات السياسية بااعتبارها صحفية سياسية يوميه 2. استخدمت الصحيفة المصطلحات الت
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لا شك أن البلاغة تمثل الركن الأساس في إعجاز القرآن الكريم وبها تسمى معجزة (الإذعان) إذ عجز أفصح العرب عن معارضته أو حتى مجاراته أو حتى كتابة سورة من سوره الرصينة والبليغة المعجزة , لذلك شغل العلماء : (مفسرون , بلاغيون , نحويون , ...) بهذا العلم , فأخذ كل منهم يدرسه بطريقة مختلفة ومنهاج مغاير ليزيد من هذا البحر المديد, ولأجل الكشف عن المزيد من لآلئ القرآن الكامنة وال
... Show MoreManagement is considered as most important resource of the society ones in modern era and an exchange
point in societies’ lives in order to achieve its goals and wishes. So far, management behinds the new
electronic society has become different in shape and nature due to the force of the nature of information
technology that shapes the relationships between the world’s individuals at the national level but it goes
beyond the international ones. The study aims at identifying the impact of the electronic management’s
components upon the improvement of the quality of nursing care in Baghdad’s hospitals. The descriptive
design, with a sample-survey approach, is used as appropriate ones for the field study of social
Adverse drug reactions (ADR) are important information for verifying the view of the patient on a particular drug. Regular user comments and reviews have been considered during the data collection process to extract ADR mentions, when the user reported a side effect after taking a specific medication. In the literature, most researchers focused on machine learning techniques to detect ADR. These methods train the classification model using annotated medical review data. Yet, there are still many challenging issues that face ADR extraction, especially the accuracy of detection. The main aim of this study is to propose LSA with ANN classifiers for ADR detection. The findings show the effectiveness of utilizing LSA with ANN in extracting AD
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Summary:
The A. H. 7th century had witnessed an obvious development
in the Yemeni scientific process. The most important reason
being the establishment of the Resooliy State (A. H. 626-858)
which had achieved economic and scientific prosperity in
various fields of knowledge. Its sultans had participated in
building schools, purchasing books, summoning of scientists,
presenting gifts, and encouraging scientific journeys in and out
of Yemen. Therefore, studies had thrived and authorship
widened, and there appeared not a few number of scientists..
The advent of UNHCR reports has given rise to the uniqueness of its distinctive way of image representation and using semiotic features. So, there are a lot of researches that have investigated UNHCR reports, but no research has examined images in UNHCR reports of displaced Iraqis from a multimodal discourse perspective. The present study suggests that the images are, like language, rich in many potential meanings and are governed by clearly visual grammar structures that can be employed to decode these multiple meanings. Seven images are examined in terms of their representational, interactional and compositional aspects. Depending on the results, this study concludes that the findings support the visual grammar theory and highlight the va
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