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Almutairi, Mashael; Al Kous, Nouf; Zitouni, Mimouna – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
President Barack Obama's use of the hedging language is an evidence of his unique mastery of rhetorical strategies, power of persuasion and an influential speaker. The purpose of this study was to identify and retrieve the hedging devices contained in President Obama's speeches. For this purpose, his most important and decisive speeches were…
Descriptors: Presidents, Language Usage, Speeches, Taxonomy