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 If a word has more than one meaning, this is known as polysemy, and the word is called a polyseme . An example of a polyseme is pupil (part of the eye, school child).


If the synonyms aren’t closely related in meaning, or if the intended meaning of the polyseme isn’t clear, then the reader or listener may not be able to identify which meaning is intended. There are many kinds of ambiguity, but this section is concerned with lexical ambiguity, which occurs when it is not possible to decide on the intended meaning of a word. In the activity above, some of the words used in these letters have synonyms, or are polysemes. ‘Drawers’ is synonymous with ‘part of an item of furniture’ but is also synonymous with ‘item of women’s underwear’. ‘Water’ can mean any amount of water from the flow from a tap to the ocean; but also by association ‘urine’. ‘Erection’ can mean ‘building’ or ‘sexual arousal’. If the producer of a text intends one meaning, but the context in which a word is used implies another, the result is confusion, because the text becomes ambiguous.

Carter, Ronald, et al. Working with Texts : A Core Introduction to Language Analysis, Routledge, 2001. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nottingham/detail.action?docID=180446.
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