Sabtu, 09 April 2016

Ambiguity in Semantics


Ambiguity is a term used to characterize phenomena that have more than only one meaning. These meanings are distinct from each other and have no close schema in common. That is why a single expression may lead to multiple interpretations..

Young boys and girls love the adventure playground.
This sentence is syntactically ambiguous, because the reference of young is unclear. There are two possible interpretations of the subject. It may either be that [young boys] and girls love the adventure playground, or young [boys and girls] love [it]. The structural analysis shows that the sentence may be interpreted in a way that young only refers to the boys, or it may be understood as characterising the boys as well as the girls.

5 komentar:

  1. how we can easily understand the meaning of the ambiguity of meaning if it means much more?

    BalasHapus
  2. actually, I also still learn to post the course materials into blog, and my blog also is not perfect yet. your blog is very simple. it can be better if you give more explanations and examples, becaue this is very simple. thanks

    BalasHapus
  3. I think your persentation is good, I can understand what you mean, but I dont see your blog when you persentage
    you also dont show the power point.
    your explanation in the blog is too short,please give more explanation

    BalasHapus
  4. your explanation is good, you also give more example for us so that I can understand about your topic

    BalasHapus
  5. how about ambiguity in literature? may give me example about it? thank you

    BalasHapus