AMBIGUITY
Ambiguity is the
presence of two or more possible meaning. A word, sentence or phrase has only
one meaning is not ambiguous.
There are three type of
ambiguity :
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Semantic ambiguity
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Structural ambiguity
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Lexical ambiguity
Example of semantic
ambiguity :
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Headline
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Will you give me my new laptop?
When pig fly!
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Ambiguity type
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Semantic Ambiguity
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Identification and explanation
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“When pig fly” is an idiom that has
a meaning as “never”, instead “when pig can fly”
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What makes headline humorous
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The real meaning of it is “never”
rather than pig can fly, pig has no wings, so it will never be able to fly.
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Example of structural
ambiguity :
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Headline
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There were a tall man and woman come
to your house yesterday.
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Ambiguity type
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Structural Ambiguity
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Identification and explanation
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The headline’s two alternative
syntactic representations make it structurally ambivalent:
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What makes deadline humorous
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The headline makes the reader
confuses, it is because tall man and tall woman can be written by tall man
and woman, it makes the reader confuse but it is humorous thing.
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Example of lexical
ambiguity :
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Headline
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The rocker dances in the house.
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Ambiguity type
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Lexical Ambiguity.
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Identification and explanation
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The word of rocker may have two
possible meaning. That is rock singer or a rock chair.
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What makes deadline humorous
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Chair is an unanimated thing, so
it is impossible for a chair to dance.
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