Polysemy in Language Learning and its Practical Uses

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………3

1. WORDS AND THEIR MEANINGS………………………………………..3

1.1.The Conventional nature of Linguistic Signs………………………………..3
1.2.The Societal Environment of Word………………………………………….8
1.3.General reasons for changing of meaning…………………………………...10
1.4.Main Types of Semantic Change……………………………………………14
1.5.Some Special Factors of Social Environment………………………………16

2. STUDYING POLYSEMY…………………………………………………..18

2.1.Polysemy as the Source of Ambiguities in a Language……………………..18
2.2.Historical Development of Polysemy……………………………………….22
2.3.The Diachronic Approach to Studying Polysemy…………………………...24
2.4.The Synchronic Approach to Studying Polysemy…………………………...26
2.5.Polysemy and its Connection with the Context……………………………...28

3. PRACTICAL USAGE OF POLYSEMY IN TEACHING ENGLISH….31

3.1. Ways of conveying the word meaning………………………………………31
3.2. Polysemy in Teaching English at Intermediate Level……………………….34
3.3. Polysemy in Teaching English at Advanced Level………………………….36
3.4. The Experiment on applying activities with polysemy……………………...43
3.5. Analysis of the results………………………………………………………. 46

CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………. 50

BIBLIOGRAPHY……………………………………………………………… 52

APPENDIX…………………………………………………………………….. 54

INTRODUCTION

Language is defined as a human system of communication that uses arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols. But the phenomenon of language is far too complicated, intriguing, and mysterious to be adequately explained by a brief definition. The organic function of the language is to carry meaning. Most of the problems in linguistic science are intimately bound to question of semasiology and call for scientific analysis of communication in words. The study of words is not exclusively a study of roots and stems, of prefixes or suffixes. The mysterious world of words is an object of scientific investigation [ 13; 25 ].
Theoretical problems of

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