The Disambiguation and Application of the English Syntactic Ambiguity

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10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.83How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English syntactic, ambiguity, disambiguation application

Abstract

English ambiguity is an intrinsic phenomenon of language itself and exists widely. English ambiguity mainly includes the semantic ambiguity caused by polysemous words and sentences of syntactic ambiguity which may contain different understanding at the aspect of structures. Syntactic ambiguity expresses rich connotation with the limited notations, and therefore it has been paid great attention in the linguistic study. On the one hand, the syntactic ambiguity has negative effect, which causes the human communication to produce the misunderstanding; on the other hand, it also has the positive function. The strengthened subject, the vivid and humorous effect may be obtained as long as appropriate application of syntactic ambiguity. So through the analysis of the syntactic ambiguity, we may improve the abilities of English comprehension, and thus the ability of understanding and applying English language may be improved. This article first analyzes the categories and causes of syntactic ambiguity, and then analyzes the disambiguation and application of the English syntactic ambiguity.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lijun Yang
PY  - 2014/05
DA  - 2014/05
TI  - The Disambiguation and Application of the English Syntactic Ambiguity
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Intercultural Communication
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 329
EP  - 333
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.83
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