Well
readers, for this time I wanna explain to you about ambiguity. We often hear
daily about that. But, we just knew definition ambiguity in general. May be
useful…
Definition
of Ambiguity
A word,
phrase, or sentence is ambiguous if it has more than one meaning.. However,
phrases and sentences can be ambiguous even if none of their constituents is. The notion of ambiguity has philosophical
applications. For example, identifying an ambiguity can aid in solving a
philosophical problem. Although people are sometimes said to be ambiguous in
how they use language, ambiguity is, strictly speaking, a property of
linguistic expressions. A word, phrase, or sentence is ambiguous if it has more
than one meaning. Obviously this definition does not say what meanings are or
what it is for an expression to have one (or more than one). For a particular
language, this information is provided by a grammar, which systematically pairs
forms with meanings, ambiguous forms with more than one meaning (see MEANING and SEMANTICS).
There are two types of ambiguity:
1) Lexical ambiguity is by far the more
common. The multiple meaning of the utterance depends on the meaning of the
single word. For example, the sentence “ I saw him at the Bank” could mean he
was cashing a check at the money Bank, or fishing at the river Bank, or even
giving some blood at the blood Bank.
2) Structural ambiguity occurs when a phrase
or sentence has more than one underlying structure. These ambiguities are said
to be structural because each such phrase can be represented in two structurally
different ways, for example,” Annie bumped into a man with an umbrella”. These
sentence can explanation two ideas:
a) Annie had an umbrella and she bumped into a
man
b) Annie bumped into a man when he happened to
be carrying an umbrella.
Reference: http://online.sfsu.edu/kbach/ambguity.html
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