The Role of Context in Polysemy

• Authors: Éva Kovács
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Polysemy, the phenomenon whereby a linguistic unit exhibits multiple distinct yet related meanings, has always been a topic of great interest for both lexical semanticists and lexicographers. The primary aim of this paper is to investigate what role context plays in the interpretation of the different senses of polysemous lexical items.

Keywords

EN

context; homonymy; lexical semantics; polysemy; vagueness

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 60-69

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-21

Contributors

author

Éva Kovács

• Eszterházy Károly College

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10319-012-0007-x