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Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Ambiguity', 1.
  • Essays 'Ambiguity', 2.
  • Essays 'Ambiguity', 3.
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Assignment: State and Illustrate Levels at which Ambiguity is Possible in Discourse.
In every human language, there are individual expressions used that may have two or more distinct meanings. Thus, a word, phrase or sentence is ambiguous if it has more than, one meaning. Ambiguity, occurs when meaning of a word phrase or sentence can have two possible interpretations and the reader cannot determine from the sentence which is correct. A distinctive feature, of ambiguity is that one sound makes another sound significant. However meaning can vary in a word but can change overtime, ambiguit…

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