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Solomon, God, and Sharon Rose Walk into a Song: Dialoguing Polysemy in the Song of Songs
Distinguishing terminologically and conceptually between polysemy, polyvalence, and double coding, this essay outlines a framework for treating instances of discursive polysemy in the Hebrew Bible. Particular attention is given to the Song of Songs, the
David M. Dalwood
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Beginning with an explanation of lexical ambiguity in general, this paper focuses on polysemy. First, it makes a clear distinction between homonymy and polysemy, the two main lexical ambiguity types, to later finish this first section supporting the theory of a lexical ambiguity continuum as proposed by Lyons (1977) and Klepousniotou (2012) among ...
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A word is said to be polysemous when it is associated with two or several related senses (e.g., a straight line/a washing on a line/a line of bad decisions; lose a wallet/lose a relative; a handsome man/a handsome gift). It is distinguished from monosemy, where a word form is associated with a single meaning, and homonymy, where a single word form is ...
Agustín Vicente, Ingrid L. Falkum
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Fischermann, Miranca +3 more
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Lexical Polysemy: Lexicographic Implications
This paper intends to show the importance of having linguistic instruments, principally semantic ones, for determining the meaning of words with the greatest precision and, consequently, managing to meticulously establish the different meanings of a ...
Rafael García Pérez
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This critical review engages with Michael Devitt’s exposition on language theory and communication as presented in his book Overlooking Conventions. The review is comprised of two main sections.
Gvoždiak, Vít, Fikejzová, Michaela
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Polysemy networks: Mapping between polysemous sense in semiformal lexical ontology
Based on the cognitive framework of language description, this paper aims at representing noun polysemy so that it can beuseful to computational systems.
Isa Mara da Rosa Alves +1 more
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Polysémie lexicale et représentation géométrique du sens : l’exemple du verbe entendre
The Electronic Dictionary of Synonyms presents an automated representation of the polysemy of lexical units which is based on a dynamic and continuous model of meaning construction. This paper deals with the tools implemented by this dictionary.
Corinne Ozouf
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FENOMENUL POLISEMIEI ÎN TERMINOLOGIA ÎNVĂȚĂMÂNTULUI SUPERIOR ÎN LIMBA ROMÂNĂ ȘI ÎN LIMBA ENGLEZĂ
Studiul abordează fenomenul polisemiei în cadrul limbajului specializat al învățamântului superior (ÎS) în limba engleză și în limba română din perspectivă descriptiv-lingvistică.
Victoria SOLOVEI
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The role of metonymy and polysemy in academic and popular science literature
Metonymy and polysemy in academic and popular science texts are useful linguistic phenomena that aid in interpreting complex specialised terms by capturing various meanings in scientific terminology.
Alla Gabidullina +4 more
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