Polysemy and its objective character

Тип работы: Курсовая
Предмет: Английский
Год защиты: 2013
Кол-во страниц: 35

Описание работы

Introduction The theme of the course paper is “Polysemy and its objective character”. Language is defined as a human system of communication that uses arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols. But frankly speaking, language is far too complicated, intriguing, and mysterious to be adequately explained by a brief definition. The organic function of the language is to carry meaning. Most of the problems in linguistic science are intimately bound to question of semasiology and call for scientific analysis of communication in words. The study of words is not exclusively a study of roots and stems, of prefixes or suffixes. The mysterious world of words is an object of scientific investigation [1; 25]. Theoretical problems of linguistic form and meaning as relevant to the progressive development of language have attracted the attention of scholars, philosophers and grammarians since the times of Plato and Aristotle. From those times sameness of meaning was not very easy to deal with but there seemed nothing inherently difficult about difference of meaning. The situation is the same nowadays. Not only different words have different meanings; it’s also the case that the same word may have a set of meanings. This phenomenon is called polysemy.

Оглавление:

Introduction    3
1.1 Types of Meaning    6
1.2 Approaches to Studying Polysemy    8
1.3. Polysemy and Context    13
2. Objective Characteristics of Polysemy    18
2.1 Homophony versus Polysemy    18
2.2 Analysis of Meaning and Context    22
2.3 Metaphorical Extension of the Lexemes    27
Conclusion    31
Bibliography    34
Appendix    35


Источники:

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Количество источников: 17


Цена: 3000 тг

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