Terrible angels : semantic ambivalence and polysemy

This study deals with the problem of ambivalence at the semantic level of word meaning. We argue that semantic ambivalence determines the whole structure of polysemy of certain English words and propose a method of establishing contextual markers indicating the presence of semantic ambivalence as th...

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Main Authors: Smirnova, Alexandra (Author), Tolochin, Igor (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2018-08.
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