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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شهدت السينما اثناء عمرها الممتد عبر نحو قرن من الزمن احداثا وتطورات سياسية مهمة، فضلا عن التطورات التقنية والفنية وكانت السينما حاضرة وشاهدة على احداث سياسية بارزة مر بها العالم قبل واثناء وبعد الحربين العالميتين الاولى والثانية وفترة الحرب الباردة وما بعده. وقد حظيت السينما اثناء النصف الاول من القرن العشرين باهتمام كبير من قبل الدول الكبرى والسياسيين فيها فضلا عن الاقبال التجاري للشرك
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ملخـــص البحــــث
لقد شُغِفَ الأدب العربي في مراحله جميعاً بمآثر الامجاد التي سطرها قادة الاسلام عبر حركتهم الإلهية فكان الامام علي(u) يمثل الاشعاع النير الذي جذب قريحة الادباء والمفكرين منذ القرن الاول الهجري الى يومنا هذا وسيبقى حتى يرث الله الارض ومَنْ عليها. ومِن الذين شُغِفَوا حبّاً بتلك السيرة الحاضرة استاذ الفقهاء السيد ابو القاسم الخو
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