The Role of Context in Polysemy

Kovács, Éva

doi:10.2478/v10319-012-0007-x

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The Role of Context in Polysemy

Romanian Journal of English Studies

Volume 9 (2012): Issue 1 (December 2012)

By: Éva Kovács

Open Access

|Feb 2013

Abstract

Polysemy, the phenomenon whereby a linguistic unit exhibits multiple distinct yet related meanings, has always been a topic of great interest for both lexical semanticists and lexicographers. The primary aim of this paper is to investigate what role context plays in the interpretation of the different senses of polysemous lexical items.

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