英语专业毕业论文
On Ambiguity Phenomenon in English
Ambiguity is a very common phenomenon existing all the time in language. During the process of learning English, people often encounter the phenomenon of ambiguity, or encounter problems caused by ambiguity. Studying ambiguity and its causes in English can not only help people to avoid ambiguity so that people can have a more profound understanding on the English language itself, but also can make full use of ambiguity for people to service people, create unexpected effects. As a result, graspingthe ambiguity of the English languageand its causes can help people improve their English language abilities and interpersonal skills, at the same time, contribute to the development of linguistic theory.
But what is this ambiguity? Ambiguity refers to the phenomenon of languages according to the grammatical rules and following the sentences with the logic of common sense containing two or more interpretations. To understand this definition, let us look at the following examples:
Example 1：John drove to the bank.
Example 2：They saw her duck.
Both of the example 1 and example 2 are sentences with ambiguity. The former is caused byhomonymy phenomenon while the latter is caused by the different understandings in syntactic construction: For example 1, if “duck” was considered as indefinite form without “to” and this definite form is theobject of “her”. As a result, the meaning of the sentence changes into “They saw her move her head down quickly.” For example 2, if duck was considered into the direct object of “saw”, then the word “duck” changes into noun with the meaning of “They saw her duck”.
Through the example 1and example 2, we can easily find that even though they are both ambiguous sentences, but the causes of the formation of ambiguity are in different ways. Example 1 is a vocabulary level of ambiguity (Lexical Ambiguities), while Example 2 is a syntactic level of ambiguity (Syntactic Ambiguities), and that the two levels of ambiguity is the main reason forambiguity. Therefore this article makes some in-depth and specific analysis and discussion on the ambiguity phenomenon of English language and its causes from these twolevel ambiguities.
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