英语专业本科毕业论文onenglishambiguityzhaobanghongoutline(编辑修改稿)

英语专业本科毕业论文onenglishambiguityzhaobanghongoutline(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

sentence is read with different placements of stress, different interpretations or implicatures will be obtained. Liaison Liaison is the link of sounds or words. In a speech, each sound of word should be linked smoothly and naturally. On the other hand, liaison triggers ambiguity just because it makes words homonymous. For example: (2) a. I see a /greiteip/ b. I see a grey tape c. I see a grate ape In Example ( 2a), the phoic symbol /greiteip/ represents two different written forms: “grate ape” and “grey tape”. Although (2b) and ( 2c) share the same pronunciation, their meanings are different. Homophony Homophones are words identical in sound but different in spelling and meaning, such as “I/eye”, “see/sea”, “dear/deer”, “tail/tale” and so on. Homophones will cause confusion of words understanding. Let us take a look at the following example. (3) The mathematics professor noticed that one of his students was daydreaming, and not following his work in the blackboard, to recall his attention, he said sharply, “Brown, Brown, board!” The boy s tartled, looked up. “Yes, sir, very.” came the reply. “Board” and “bored” have the same phonological form /bo:d/. The professor wanted Brown to look at the blackboard, but Brown woke up from his dream and didn’t catch his professor, so he answered immediately “Yes, sir, very”. Brown misunderstood his teacher by replying the mathematical class was boring. Lexical Ambiguity Semantic ambiguity relates to the ambiguous meaning of words or sentences. The paper just analyzes lexical ambiguity. Most of lexical ambiguity is caused by polysemy and homonymy. In addition, historical change and dialectical difference also trigger lexical ambiguity. P olysemy Polysemy is the phenomenon that words are associated with at least two meanings. Example is the word “head”, which refers to the object on the top of our body, on the top of a glass of beer, on the top of a pany or department. Though polysemy has many interpretations, just only one is maintained in a certain context. If two interpretations of the same word can be both adopted in a sentence, ambiguity occurs. For example: (4) He was seated by the chairman. The different understanding of the word “by” will lead to ambiguity. If it is understood as “by the side of”, this s entence’s meaning is “He seated by the side of the chairman”. But if word “by” is understood as a preposition, the sentence means “The chairman let him sit down”. Homonymy Homonyms are words with the same pronunciation and written forms, but with distinct and unrelated meanings. Examples are the words like “punch” (a blow with a fist or a drink)。 “mole” (on skin or a small animal). Look at the following sentence: (5) a. He went to the bank yesterday. b. He went to a financial institution where deals with money yesterday. c. He went to a riverside yesterday. Sentence ( 5a。