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.
Comprehensive automobile insurance is considered as an important branches in the portfolio of National Insurance Company in Iraq .Due to the continous accidents the company is endeavouring to this market.
The company faces several obstacles and limitations in marketing the policies of this portfolio due to certain factors and influences beyond the control of the company and others internal mainly connected with the reduction of the marketing programmes of the company .
The target of this study is to focus the light upon the interal factors which can be gorerned by the company,confronted and solved.
Comprehensive automobile insurance is considered as an important insurance which is managing by National Insurance Company due to the continuous accidents the company is endeavoring to this market not for trading motives only but also to increase the insurance awareness of people and insurance benefit for other insurance portfolios .On this basis the researcher had chosen her subject ( obstacles in marketing comprehensive automobile Insurance policy ) the company faces several obstacles and limitations in marketing the policies of this portfolio due to certain factors and influences beyond the mainly connected with the reduction of marketing programmes of the company . the aim of this study is to shade the light upon the internal factors
... Show MoreColonialism 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
... Show Moreهدف البحث إلى تصميم برنامج الكتروني للرحلات المعرفية عبر الانترنيت (web quest) المصاحب لمنهج تعليمي معد للدروس العملية بكرة اليد لطالبات المرحلة الثانية، والتعرف على تأثيره في التحصيل المعرفي بكرة اليد لديهن، وأُعتمد المنهج التجريبي بتصميم المجموعتين التجريبيتين والمجموعة الضابطة على عينة من طالبات المرحلة الثانية في كلية التربية البدنية وعلوم الرياضة/جامعة بغداد للعام الدراسي (2021- 2022)، البالغ عددهن (60) طا
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The Problem of the research is Limited with the ambguity of environmental work Characterstics role and among them the natural Working Conditions: Temproture, Lighting, Noise, Colours,and Smells, in the Decisions that rule the Planning and Designing work of the industrial Location and it 's targets are Limited with discovering the effect of environmental work Characterstics in planning and designing the industrial Companies and to reach to the most important properties that distinguish the industrial Location Within the frame of dealing with the nature Conditions in the dry, hot regions and the dfining of the relationship between them on the assumption that the Characterstics of environmental work have agreat effect in
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هدف البحث إلى تصميم برنامج الكتروني للرحلات المعرفية عبر الانترنيت (web quest) المصاحب لمنهج تعليمي معد للدروس العملية بكرة اليد لطالبات المرحلة الثانية، والتعرف على تأثيره في التحصيل المعرفي بكرة اليد لديهن، وأُعتمد المنهج التجريبي بتصميم المجموعتين التجريبيتين والمجموعة الضابطة على عينة من طالبات المرحلة الثانية في كلية التربية البدنية وعلوم الرياضة/جامعة بغداد للعام الدراسي (2021- 2022)، البالغ عددهن (60) طا
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Search procedures on the treatment research has tended include what cam followers Astaratejaat available to the business organizations to achieve competitive advantage and continued benefits of the form in which the organization can maintain its success in the race competitive and increase production efficiency.
The objectives of the study , the study came with the number of goals and the most important one the knowledge of the relationship and the influence between the variables of the study and review of the latest literature frameworks intellectual and philosophical to the variables of the study and come up with recommendations that could help the organization improve its performance .
... Show MoreThe research illustrated that the theory of constraints is "A group of concepts and basics that aim at helping the management in order to determine the difficulties and how to overcome these difficulties through determining the necessary change and how these change can be done efficiently and effectively ".
The research showed that the theory of constraint including its tools calls for magnifying throughput, constricting the product cycle , determining the optimal production mix , utilization of scare resources and canceling the idle time , that achieving throughput increasing then increasing profit .
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... Show MoreIt is axiomatic that languages mirror the world view of their users. Manipulating honorific forms among people inevitably reflects this truth . Honorifics are conventionalized forms or expressions manifested in all the world's languages and are used to express the social status of the participants in the verbal interaction and to convey indications like politeness and respect . English is no exception. However the question is what exactly creates these forms and their meanings. Although honorifics have been extensively researched from a grammatical and semantic angle , yet they haven’t received that significant attention i
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