Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information, Business and Education Technology (ICIBET 2013)

The Application of Ambiguity in English

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Lili Tong
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Lili Tong
Available Online March 2013.
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10.2991/icibet.2013.181How to use a DOI?
Abstract

Ambiguity is a commonly acknowledged linguistic phenomenon. In each aspect of linguistic application process, words, structure or pragmatic meaning of a phrase or a sentence can help the forming of ambiguity in a language. This paper will take English as an example to illus-trate some ambiguous phenomena, whose causes can also be found in some linguistic research fields. Ambiguity in language is a common phenomenon, which have to be analyzed adequately in order to make good use of it to reach good communication.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information, Business and Education Technology (ICIBET 2013)
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
March 2013
ISBN
978-90-78677-57-4
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/icibet.2013.181How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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