2008•Journal of Jinhua College of Profession and TechnologyRequires access
On Understanding and Defining Polysemy and Ambiguity
Ren Yan
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Abstract
Polysemy and Ambiguity are two common linguistic phenomena,which are similar but not the same.The expanding of monosemy gives rise to polysemy that turns to be one of the sources causing ambiguity.The factors that may produce ambiguity can be either linguistic or paralinguistic.Polysemy,to some extent,may transfer to ambiguity but the two have no such definite relationship.