Ambiguity及成因初探

Ambiguity and its causes

英语歧义现象随处可见,它直接影响人们对句子的正确理解和翻译。本文从音歧义、词汇歧义、句法歧义、修辞 和标点歧义等五方面对英语的歧义进行分类、分析,并论证了歧义现象及其成因。

As a common phenomenon in English, ambiguity has a direct effect on people's understanding of sentences and their translation. This article first gives a classification of English ambiguity phenomena, and then argues their causes from the five perspectives: phonology, vocabulary, syntax, rhetoric and punctuation.