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Today, I'm gonna tell you about Semantic Ambiguity.
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*Semantics is used to describe things that deal with the meanings of words and sentences.
*Semantic ambiguity is when a particular words has two different interpretations.
*Types of ambiguity :
1. Lexical Ambiguity.
This type of ambiguity, in written texts, results from multiple meanings of a word, and in the spoken language, result from different word form of the same sounds.
2. Structural Ambiguity
Structural ambiguity refers to the situation in which a sentence may have different meanings because the word of a sentence are related to each other in various ways, even though each word is clear.
3. A Combination of Lexical and Structural Ambiguity.
This type of ambiguity presents properties of both lexical and structural ambiguity, which means that it has not only an ambiguous word or words but also has more than one possible syntactic structure.
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Today, I'm gonna tell you about Semantic Ambiguity.
Ready?
Have a good seat!
*Semantics is used to describe things that deal with the meanings of words and sentences.
*Semantic ambiguity is when a particular words has two different interpretations.
*Types of ambiguity :
1. Lexical Ambiguity.
This type of ambiguity, in written texts, results from multiple meanings of a word, and in the spoken language, result from different word form of the same sounds.
2. Structural Ambiguity
Structural ambiguity refers to the situation in which a sentence may have different meanings because the word of a sentence are related to each other in various ways, even though each word is clear.
3. A Combination of Lexical and Structural Ambiguity.
This type of ambiguity presents properties of both lexical and structural ambiguity, which means that it has not only an ambiguous word or words but also has more than one possible syntactic structure.
Let's check out my video about Semantic Ambiguity!
https://youtu.be/1A9Vn2d_cJc
Thankyou for read this blog.
I hope there are something that you can get after looking my blog^^
Good afternoon avivah
BalasHapusI wanna ask to you
Whether ambiguity need to we avoided in our life? If it
"yes "why? and where ambiguity used? Whether it needs to learn us
hello nelia. thank you for asking.
HapusBased on the Indonesian Dictionary, ambiguous means having more than one meaning. This ambiguity can cause doubt or obscurity in the sentences that are spoken or written. Ambiguanism appears more often in written language. This can happen if the spelling markers are not placed correctly, there will be a double meaning. This ambiguity can occur in words, phrases, or sentences. So, usually, to avoid ambiguity, you have to choose the right word or put the punctuation in the proper place.
So ambiguity isn’t we need to avoid in our life?
Hapusjust let it flow naturally
HapusOke thanks avivah
HapusHello avivah, Is it idiomatic and ambiguity the same? Please give an example about it in our lifes!
BalasHapusHello putri.
HapusIdiomatic and ambiguity is different. We can see that An idiom is an expression that takes on a figurative meaning when certain words are combined, which is different from the literal definition of the individual words. For example, let's say I said: "Don't worry, driving out to your house is a piece of cake." We would understand that the expression 'piece of cake' means that it's easy. Normally, we obviously wouldn't associate the word 'cake' when it is on its own as anything other than dessert. But in this context, it's a well-known idiom.
While ambiguity is when a particular words has two different interpretations. Same words with different meanings can cause ambiguity, such as in, “John took off his trousers by the bank.” It is funny if we confuse one meaning of “bank,” which is a building, to another meaning, which is “an edge of a river.” Context usually resolves any ambiguity in such cases.
source :
study.com
literary.device.net
Please give me 5 or more examples of each kind of the ambiguity to make me and the rest of your readers understand this blog.!
BalasHapus1. Lexical Ambiguity :
Hapusa. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside it's too hard to read.
b. The Rabbi married my sister.
c. She is looking for a match.
d. The fisherman went to the bank.
e. I have a really nice stepladder. Sadly, I never knew my real ladder.
2. Structural Ambiguity :
a. Come meet our new French pastry chef
b. Are you up in the air about your future?
c. Take your mother-in-law out back and
shoot her.
d. The chicken is ready to eat.
e. She greeted the teacher with a smile.
3. A Combination of Lexical and Structural Ambiguity :
Taking (3) for example, duck is an ambiguous word which could be interpreted as a noun - 'a common swimming bird' or a verb - 'to lower (one's head of body) quickly' (Longman Group UK 1998: 459). As far as the syntactic category of duck is changed, the structure of this sentence is correspondingly affected. Thus, in the former situation, Mary claimed that John saw her when she ducked and duck is the complement of the object her, while in the latter one, Mary claimed that John saw the duck which belonged to her, so duck is the direct object and her is a determiner.
This type of ambiguity is not often considered as one of the main types by some linguists (e.g. Cann 1993, Hurford and Heasley 1983 and Saeed 2003) because it is an extreme example of lexical ambiguity or structural ambiguity; whereas, Chierchia and McConnell (1990) explicitly listed this type in their analysis, perhaps because it is inappropriate to classify this combination into either type. For the same reason, it is listed separately in this essay.
source :
thoughtco.com
prezi.com
http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax;jsessionid=052401C6323F0CF2209B8A03DDD5FA55?a=d&c=BAWEAH&d=D2526&dt=simple&p.a=b&p.s=ClassifierBrowse
NICE! also thxxx for the source. you're one step ahead my queation
Hapusanytime bby
HapusAvivah, in structural ambiguity, u say that it is sentence mah have different meanings, so like what? Give me 5 example about that kind of ambiguity..
BalasHapusa. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside it's too hard to read.
Hapusb. The Rabbi married my sister.
c. She is looking for a match.
d. The fisherman went to the bank.
e. I have a really nice stepladder. Sadly, I never knew my real ladder.
source : thoughtco.com
Ok thankss..
HapusWhat means Structural ambiguity refers to the situation in which a sentence? Can you expalain more about that? And give me some example
BalasHapusIf a sentence or clause has structural ambiguity, it has two or more meanings that a reader can take from it, not based on an ambiguity within the words themselves but rather based on the fact that combinations of words can be interpreted in more than one way, or that the structure of the sentence gives room more than one meaning.
HapusSome classic examples:
“The chicken is ready to eat” (can either mean that a live chicken is hungry, or that a prepared chicken is ready to serve for dinner);
“they are eating apples” (can mean that “they” [people or horses or whoever] are engaged in the activity of eating apples, or that the apples in question are the kind of apples that we think of as “eating apples,” not, say, “cooking apples”);
“a six foot man eating snake,” which you can make unambiguous through punctuation: “a six-foot man, eating snake” or “a six-foot, man-eating snake.”
Is it clear, Wella?
source : glottopedia.org
Ok, thank u
Hapuswhy dont you put the example of each type of ambiguity? please give the example at least 5 of the type
BalasHapusI'm sorry honey.
Hapus1. Lexical Ambiguity :
a. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside it's too hard to read.
b. The Rabbi married my sister.
c. She is looking for a match.
d. The fisherman went to the bank.
e. I have a really nice stepladder. Sadly, I never knew my real ladder.
2. Structural Ambiguity :
a. Come meet our new French pastry chef
b. Are you up in the air about your future?
c. Take your mother-in-law out back and
shoot her.
d. The chicken is ready to eat.
e. She greeted the teacher with a smile.
3. A Combination of Lexical and Structural Ambiguity :
Taking (3) for example, duck is an ambiguous word which could be interpreted as a noun - 'a common swimming bird' or a verb - 'to lower (one's head of body) quickly' (Longman Group UK 1998: 459). As far as the syntactic category of duck is changed, the structure of this sentence is correspondingly affected. Thus, in the former situation, Mary claimed that John saw her when she ducked and duck is the complement of the object her, while in the latter one, Mary claimed that John saw the duck which belonged to her, so duck is the direct object and her is a determiner.
This type of ambiguity is not often considered as one of the main types by some linguists (e.g. Cann 1993, Hurford and Heasley 1983 and Saeed 2003) because it is an extreme example of lexical ambiguity or structural ambiguity; whereas, Chierchia and McConnell (1990) explicitly listed this type in their analysis, perhaps because it is inappropriate to classify this combination into either type. For the same reason, it is listed separately in this essay.
source :
thoughtco.com
prezi.com
http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax;jsessionid=052401C6323F0CF2209B8A03DDD5FA55?a=d&c=BAWEAH&d=D2526&dt=simple&p.a=b&p.s=ClassifierBrowse
Hi Avivah, how do we know if a sentence has ambiguity? Pls give me at least 5 examples.
BalasHapusIn the best of all possible worlds (as far as most Natural Language Processing is concerned, anyway) every word would have one and only one meaning. But, as we all know, this is not the case. When a word has more than one meaning, it is said to be lexically ambiguous. When a phrase or sentence can have more than one structure it is said to be structurally ambiguous.
HapusAmbiguity is a pervasive phenomenon in human languages. It is very hard to find words that are not at least two ways ambiguous, and sentences which are (out of context) several ways ambiguous are the rule, not the exception. This is not only problematic because some of the alternatives are unintended (i.e. represent wrong interpretations), but because ambiguities `multiply'. In the worst case, a sentence containing two words, each of which is two ways ambiguous may be four ways ambiguous (), one with three such words may be , ways ambiguous etc. One can, in this way, get very large numbers indeed. For example, a sentence consisting of ten words, each two ways ambiguous, and with just two possible structural analyses could have different analyses. The number of analyses can be problematic, since one may have to consider all of them, rejecting all but one.
Fortunately, however, things are not always so bad. In the rest of this section we will look at the problem in more detail, and consider some partial solutions.
A word, phrase, or sentence is ambiguous if it has more than one meaning. The word 'light', for example, can mean not very heavy or not very dark. Words like 'light', 'note', 'bear' and 'over' are lexically ambiguous. They induce ambiguity in phrases or sentences in which they occur, such as 'light suit' and 'The duchess can't bear children'. However, phrases and sentences can be ambiguous even if none of their constituents is. The phrase 'porcelain egg container' is structurally ambiguous, as is the sentence 'The police shot the rioters with guns'. Ambiguity can have both a lexical and a structural basis, as with sentences like 'I left her behind for you' and 'He saw her duck'.
The notion of ambiguity has philosophical applications. For example, identifying an ambiguity can aid in solving a philosophical problem. Suppose one wonders how two people can have the same idea, say of a unicorn. This can seem puzzling until one distinguishes 'idea' in the sense of a particular psychological occurrence, a mental representation, from 'idea' in the sense of an abstract, shareable concept. On the other hand, gratuitous claims of ambiguity can make for overly simple solutions. Accordingly, the question arises of how genuine ambiguities can be distinguished from spurious ones. Part of the answer consists in identifying phenomena with which ambiguity may be confused, such as vagueness, unclarity, inexplicitness and indexicality.
source :
https://www1.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/clmt/MTbook/HTML/node53.html
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/kbach/ambguity.html
Please give me 3 definitions semantic ambiguity according to experts?
BalasHapus1. Lyons (1968: 400)
HapusThe meaning of Semantics according to Lyons is the term semantics is of relative origin, being coined in late ningteenth century from Greek verb meaning to signify. The semantic meaning is a relatively new origin term, which was created at the end of the nineteenth century from the meaning of the Greek verb interpreted to mean ")
2. Palmer (1981: 1)
Understanding Semantic according to Palmer is Semantics is semantics is a linguistic. Semantic meaning is a term that refers to a study of meaning, and because meaning is part of language, so semantics are part of linguistics.
3. Kridalaksana (2001: 1993)
Understanding Semantic according to Kridalaksana is a part of the structure of language that is related to the meaning of the expression and with the structure of the meaning of a speech.
source : www.seputarpengetahuan.co.id
Your blog is like a night without stars and months. pitch black
BalasHapusare you bullying me? really?
Hapuswhat 'month' means? january, february, or what? hahaha
How many types of ambiguity in semantics?
BalasHapuscan you explain in detail and give an example about that?
I will tell you another types of ambiguity that i didn't put on my blog. Here it is :
Hapus1. Syntactic ambiguity.
A sentence has multiple parse trees.
Particularly common sources of ambiguity in English are:
a. Phrase attachment
b. Conjunction
c. Noun group structure
2. Semantic ambiguity.
Even after the syntax and the meanings of the individual words have been resolved, there are two ways of reading the sentence.
Example :
a. "Lucy owns a parrot that is larger than a cat", "a parrot" is extenstensionally quantified, "a cat" is either universally quantified or means "typical cats."
b. The dog is chasing the cat." vs. "The dog has been domesticated for 10,000 years." In the first sentence, "The dog" means to a particular dog; in the second, it means the species "dog".
c. "John kissed his wife, and so did Sam". (Sam kissed John's wife or his own?)
3. Anaphoric ambiguity.
A phrase or word refers to something previously mentioned, but there is more than one possibility.
Example :
a. "Margaret invited Susan for a visit, and she gave her a good lunch." (she = Margaret; her = Susan)
b. "Margaret invited Susan for a visit, but she told her she had to go to work" (she = Susan; her = Margaret.)
c. "On the train to Boston, George chatted with another passenger. The man turned out to be a professional hockey player." (The man = another passenger).
source : cs.nyu.edu
Why this blog so blue? Is this a calendar? I can buy it in market near in my house
BalasHapusno dude. its called an aesthetic!
HapusKomentar ini telah dihapus oleh pengarang.
Hapusyou're calender's blue? What else is blue of yours hmm? Moe moe, seriously. It's like you're declaring the blueness of something crude people would consider aesthetic.
HapusI don't care... I just don't like it.. Thank you
HapusYour blog looks like the ocean.
BalasHapusso you can swam in that
HapusSo beautiful, swimming in ocean u'r blog...
BalasHapusif you can't swim, you can be drowned
Hapusnoob
BalasHapuson what basis did you say that?
HapusYou don't even know how to hyperlink. Blatant links like that is ugly
Hapus@tatum : You say like that as if you were an expert?
HapusCan you give me 10 example of words without meanings?
BalasHapusIn general, A word is defined as a sequence of alphabets which has a meaning. So if you go by this definition, you won't find a word without meaning.
HapusBut if you think a word as a sequence of alphabets without necessity of having a meaning , you can have innumerable number of words. Many such words are already mentioned so I don't feel the need to mention more.
What is the special characteristic between lexical ambiguity and structural ambiguity? so we can distinguish them very well
BalasHapusLexical Ambiguity
HapusLexical ambiguity according to Hurford and Heasley (128) is any ambiguity resulting from the ambiguity of a word. For example in the sentence The captain corrected the list is lexically ambiguous. The word list has two possible meanings, either record (short pieces of information, such as people’s name) or lean (in a ship).
Lexical ambiguity can be created from because of polysemy and homophony (O’Grady 270).
Polysemy
Polysemy occurs where a word has two or more related meanings.
Example:
– Bright : shining, intelligent
– To glare : to shine intensely, to stare angrily
– A deposit : minerals in the earth, money in the bank
Homophony
Homophony exists where a single form has two or more entirely distinct meanings. For example, the word bat has the meaning either a flying mouse-like nocturnal mammal or a piece of equipment used in cricket or baseball.
In this case, it is assumed that there are two or more separate words with the same pronunciation rather than a single word with different meanings.
Structural Ambiguity
Structural ambiguity appears because of the resemblance of phrase. Each word which forms a phrase actually should be clear, but the combination can be interpreted more than one meaning. For example in the sentence I met a number of old friends and acquaintances. The word old (past or someone who has been already old, in this case about age matter) in this sentence can be connected with friends (people who you know well but not in family members) and acquaintances which means people that you have met but do not know well. In that sentence, where is meant by the past, is it friends or acquaintances?
Structural ambiguity happens if there is a sentence which is ambiguous because its words relate each other in different ways, even though none words are ambiguous (Hufford 129 – 130).
Hi avivahhh, please give an example of lexical ambiguity, thank youu
BalasHapus"You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen; it said, 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice."(English comedian Tim Vine)
Hapustry to give examples in everyday life
BalasHapusfor example: "Call me a taxi, please."
HapusIs the speaker asking someone to hail them a taxi or to be called a taxi?, "Well, I've certainly never tasted chicken cooked that way before!" So, was the chicken good or bad?
thats the ambiguity we can found in daily life. thankyou
Hi Avivah, is there a poetry example of ambiguity? if there is give me one example of the poem and explain where the sentence is ambiguity.
BalasHapusExample #1: The Catcher in the Rye (By J. D. Salinger)
HapusRead the following excerpt from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger:
“I ran all the way to the main gate, and then I waited a second till I got my breath. I have no wind, if you want to know the truth. I’m quite a heavy smoker, for one thing—that is, I used to be. They made me cut it out. Another thing, I grew six and a half inches last year. That’s also how I practically got t.b. and came out here for all these goddam checkups and stuff. I’m pretty healthy though.”
The words “they” and “here” used by the speaker are ambiguous. But the readers are allowed to presume from the context that “they” might be the professionals helping out Holden, and “here” might be a rehabilitation center.
Example #2: The Sick Rose (By William Blake)
The Sick Rose, a short lyric written by William Blake, is full of ambiguities:
“O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy;
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy”
Many of the words in the above lines show ambiguity. We cannot say for sure what ” bed of crimson joy” means; neither can we be exact about the interpretation of “dark secret love.” The ambiguous nature of such phrases allows readers to explore for deeper meanings of the poem.
Some of those who have analyzed this poem believe that “Has found out thy bed / Of crimson joy” refers to making love.
source: literary devices net
hello avivah, can you explain again, about the semantic ambiguity
BalasHapusSemantic ambiguity happens when a sentence contains an ambiguous word or phrase—a word or phrase that has more than one meaning.for example: "John kissed his wife, and so did Sam". (Sam kissed John's wife or his own?)
Hapusare you still not understanding?