On English Ambiguity

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1、Outline1.Introduction 2.TheoreticalBackground3.ClassificationofAmbiguity3.1PhonologicalAmbiguity3.1.1Intonation3.1.2Liaison3.1.3Homophony3.2LexicalAmbiguity3.2.1Polysemy3.2.2Homonymy3.2.3HistoricalChange3.2.4DialecticalDifferences 3.3SyntacticAmbiguity3.3.1MultipleConstituentStructu

2、res3.3.2MultipleSyntacticFunctions3.3.3Ellipsis3.4PragmaticAmbiguity4.ApproachesofDisambiguity4.1AdoptionofStressandPause4.2AdditionofContext4.3UtilizationofSyntacticStructures4.3.1AlterationofPhrasalOrder4.3.2ReorganizationofSentence4.3.3AdditionofOmittedConstituents4.4Replacemento

3、fAmbiguousWords4.5UtilizationofPunctuationMarks5.ConclusionOnEnglishAmbiguity Abstract:Thispapermainlyexpoundsthereasonsofphonological,lexical,syntacticandpragmaticambiguity,andputsforwardfiveapproachesofdisambiguityinEnglish:adoptionofstressandpause,additionoflanguagecontext,utiliz

4、ationofsyntacticstructure,replacementofwordsandutilizationofpunctuationmarks. Keywords:ambiguity;reasons;disambiguity;approaches 论英语中的歧义现象 摘要：本文从语音、词汇、句法以及语用四大因素入手，分析了英语中歧义句产生的原因；并在此基础上详细阐述了五种消歧的方法：运用重读、增设语境、利用句法结构、替代词语、利用标点符号。 关键词：歧义；原因；消歧；方法 1.Introduction Ambiguityisasubtlebutper

5、vasivephenomenoninEnglish.Butastowhatisambiguitytherearemanyversions.Chomskyholdthatambiguityoccurswhenanexpression_r_r_rhasgrammaticalstructureandissemanticallyrelationalbutitsdeepstructurecanbeinterpretedintwoormoreways(1965:25).YangPingproposedthatambiguityiswithvariousunderstand

6、ingsormulti-meaning(2001:38).Cannstated“Asentenceissaidtobeambiguouswheneveritcanbeassociatedwithtwoormoredifferentmeanings.”(1993:8)Allinall,ambiguityreferstothephenomenonthatanequivocalsentenceorexpression_r_r_rcanbeunderstoodinmorethanoneway.Onthebasisofdifferentdefinitions,thepa

7、perfocusesonfourperspectives:phonological,lexical,syntacticandpragmaticambiguity.Sinceambiguityisafundamentalproblemoflanguagecomprehensionandanobstacleofcommunication,effortsaremadeintoandattentionispaidtotheresolutionofambiguitysoastoachievesuccessfulandeffectivecommunication.2.Th

8、eoreticalBackground