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Homonymy in English and Arabic: A Contrastive Study | ||
| Journal of University of Babylon | ||
| Article 1, Volume 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 964-984 | ||
| Authors | ||
| far Altaie; Areej As; ad Ja; Ahmed Mohammed Ali Abdul Ameer | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Introduction In fact, although homonymy is defined differently in English, yet in general, a word is similar in form with another word either in pronunciation (i.e. homophone) or in spelling (homograph), or both, but differs from it in meaning. On the other hand, in Arabic, there is a general agreement that the homonym is an expression with one enunciation (or form) and more than one meaning. Actually, this phenomenon creates lexical and syntactic ambiguity in both languages. Thus, it should be studied and examined. In addition, homonymy has its own features, specifications and forms in each language. Hence, this research aims at: 1- investigating homonymy in English and Arabic. 2- making a comparison between the two languages to show the similarities and differences between them. | ||
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