英语中的句法歧义分析与歧义排除策略

语言的歧义现象在英语中普遍存在,笔者介绍了英语句法歧的定义和典型句法歧义现象,并对其产生的原因以及解歧策略进行了分析,这对英语学习者和教师教学都有重要意义。     

浅析无意歧义与蓄意歧义的产生原因

歧义是一种复杂的语言现象,同一语言符号的含义模棱两可,可以被说和读者作两种或多种解释,传递两种或多种的意思。歧义就目的性可分为无意歧义和蓄意歧义。无意歧义是语言结构矛盾的自然显露,在某些场合应尽量避免;而蓄意歧义在语言运用中应充分发挥其积极性,在修辞、文学创作和欣赏,在广告艺术中的作用已充分证实了它是语言艺术一个必不可少的客观组成部分。本文从语音、词汇、句法三个层面分析两种不同类型歧义产生原因。     

浅谈歧义现象产生的原因

歧义现象是指一个语言片段可以作两种或者两种以上的语义理解.歧义是一种普遍的语言现象,存在于包括汉语在内的许多语言中.造成歧义现象产生的原因也多种多样,本文主要从语音角度切入,从同音词、多音字、轻重音、停顿、方言与普通话的差异等方面阐述歧义现象产生的原因.     

论我国国内英语歧义句的研究现状和不足

歧义是人类语言中普遍存在的一种现象。英语作为一种普遍使用的人类语言,也存在大量的歧义现象。笔者在阅读了大量近八年的国内有关英语歧义的研究发现,这些研究存在一些共同的特点,同时也存在一些研究不足。本论文将具体阐述这些特点及不足,希望能给以后的英语歧义研究者提供一定的帮助。     

英汉翻译中的歧义现象及翻译策略

歧义现象是语言的一种特殊表现形式。将词汇歧义、语法歧义及语用歧义作为研究重点,根据自身实践经历及领悟,探讨歧义产生的根源及表现形式,并从相关翻译实例出发,深入研究歧义现象的理论与实践,为英汉翻译提供有效的策略。     

浅论语文教学中的歧义现象

歧义是一种有趣的语言现象,也是语言学的重要研究课题.上个世纪80年代至今,众多研究者从各个层面对歧义现象进行了广泛、深入的研究,取得了令人瞩目的成就.本文在总结歧义问题研究的基础上,从歧义现象的分类入手进行论述,以便更好地跟学生探讨歧义现象.歧义现象是由不同因素造成的,既可以是语法的也可以是词汇的,还可以是语音和语用的.因此划分的角度不同,所得出的类型也不同.如王震雷(1997)从歧义产生的条件分句法平面的歧义和语义歧义;李汉威、黄春珍(2001)从三个平面理论角度将歧义分为句法歧义、语义歧义和语用歧义;郭文静(2002)等从歧义产生的语言系统内部的根源角度,把歧义分为语汇歧义、语法歧义和语用歧义等等.本文则从歧义产生的原因角度,将歧义分为四大类.     

浅析英语歧义的成因与消除

英语中大量存在的歧义现象给人们的表达和交际造成障碍。本文从语音、词汇和句法三个方面分析了英语歧义的成因,并提出消除歧义的方法。     

浅析大学英语写作中的歧义类型及避免方法

本文通过多样的例子,详细的分析,简单阐述了大学英语写作中歧义现象产生的原因,以及避免歧义现象的方法。     

英语习用语及其翻译中的疑难问题

该论文将习用语翻译中出现的问题归纳为三类。一类是不求甚解,就习用语的表面意义直译;二是生搬硬套,用意义不合的汉语成语替换;三是忽略了习用语的文化内涵,使译文失去了原文的韵味。论文最后指出只要深入地掌握英语的文化背景知识,才能做好习用语的翻译。     

浅析广告英语的特点

本文旨在通过对书面英语广告的语言分析找出广告英语在词汇,句法,修辞上的特点。     

Big Five Personality Traits and Ambiguity Management in Career Decision-Making

Although ambiguity aversion has been found to impede the process and outcome of career decision-making, knowledge regarding the association between personality characteristics and ambiguity aversion is limited. Thus, the author examined the prediction of the Big Five personality traits for ambiguity aversion and the mediation of tolerance and confidence in ambiguity management. The results obtained with a U.S. sample (N = 239) revealed the following: (a) neuroticism positively predicted ambiguity aversion; (b) extraversion did not predict ambiguity aversion; (c) agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness negatively predicted ambiguity aversion; and (d) confidence in ambiguity management mediated the relationships between agreeableness, neuroticism, and openness and ambiguity aversion. These findings highlight the differential roles of the Big Five personality traits in ambiguity management and the importance of confidence in ambiguity management. The theoretical and practical implications of this study are discussed along with the study's limitations and suggestions for future research.     

Role Conflict and Ambiguity

Abstract

This study explores the relationship between role conflict and role ambiguity, and burnout of mental health service providers. The study used a sample of 259 mental health service providers who completed a questionnaire that included several measures: role conflict and ambiguity scales, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, social support scales and an involvement scale. Results showed that role conflict and role ambiguity had statistically significant correlations with several of the burnout dimensions. The author discusses the potential implications for increasing workers' quality of work life.     

When a Baby Dies: Ambiguity and Stillbirth

ABSTRACT

Stillbirth, or sudden intrauterine death, is in many ways an invisible death. A stillborn infant is one mature enough developmentally to have lived outside the womb but for some reason, or perhaps multiple reasons, was born dead. Stillborn infants are often demarcated from other types of child death and are rarely legitimized as a real loss. When a baby is stillborn, mothers, fathers, surviving siblings, and grandparents may struggle for years to find answers to a series of complex and inherently unanswerable questions. The family members' profound feelings of grief and ambiguity loss are borne in a social environment that denies this reality because the child's death was invisible to most of the world. Boss's framework for understanding ambiguous loss proves quite helpful in thinking about stillbirth.     

Boundary Ambiguity in Gay Stepfamilies: Perspectives of Gay Biological Fathers and Their Same-Sex Partners

Gay stepfamilies have their own unique stressors that impact the individual member's ability to form a family. Through in-depth interviews, gay biological fathers and their same-sex partners described their experiences in their stepfamilies. The conceptual framework of boundary ambiguity is used to frame the experiences of institutional and interpersonal stressors that influence these family members.     

Attachment Style and Tolerance for Ambiguity Effects on Relational Repair Message Interpretation Among Remarrieds

This study examined the role of the dispositional variables of attachment style and tolerance for ambiguity on the interpretation of relational repair messages. Respondents completed questionnaires that measured attachment style and tolerance for ambiguity and made interpretations of hypothetical repair messages from their spouses with varying levels of equivocation. The resulting interpretations were measured along the dimensions of honesty, competence, and politeness using Likert-type scales. Regression and multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVAs) demonstrated that both of the traits influenced the interpretation of repair messages, although in somewhat different ways and along different dimensions.     

Boundary Ambiguity and Borderline Personality Traits: Implications for Treatment for Adolescent Girls in Foster Care

This article explores the relationship between boundary ambiguity and borderline personality traits in adolescent girls in foster care. Boundary ambiguity is a family systems concept: family members are uncertain about who is in or out of the family—in either psychological or physical presence or absence. In foster care, it can be assumed that an adolescent girl has experienced trauma significant enough to be removed from her family. The connection between early childhood trauma and attachment disruption in addition to the connection between insecure/disorganized attachment and borderline personality disorder leads to the conclusion that these same adolescents are at high risk for developing borderline personality traits. The sample consists of 40 caseworkers from New England’s child protection departments and therapists from residential programs working with adolescent girls. They completed the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure for Adolescents to determine the presence of personality disruption as well as a variation of Pauline Boss’s Boundary Ambiguity Scale #1, and demographic questionnaires. The results find a significant correlation between boundary ambiguity and borderline personality traits. These findings provide directions for future research in clinical treatment and child welfare policy making.     

Military Deployment of an Adult Child: Ambiguous Loss and Boundary Ambiguity Reflected in the Experiences of Parents of Service Members

ABSTRACT

This study explored the experiences of parents of service members, military family members who are often overlooked even though they are likely a vital source of support for their military adult-children. Reflections on deployment of military adult-children were gathered from 21 parents in semistructured group interviews. A framework of ambiguous loss, boundary ambiguity, and ambivalence was used to analyze comments reflecting pre-deployment, deployment, and post-deployment experiences. Pre-deployment anticipation of leave-taking was associated with boundary ambiguity and ambivalence for parents, tempered by safety concerns. During deployment ambiguity in parental role expectations and parameters complicated parents’ attempts to manage physical absence and maintain psychological presence. Post-deployment challenged parents with ambiguous psychological presence and disruption of family boundaries, complicated by changes associated with the effects of war.     

Note passing as gendered practices of public ambiguity in a hyper‐masculine organization

This article explores a surprising and seemingly mundane organizational practice: passing notes during professional meetings. Based on 34 in‐depth interviews with women in a hyper‐masculine organization — the Israeli military — this study focuses on what I term gendered practices of public ambiguity. It demonstrates how these practices shed light on three interrelated paths to power at work: (i) practices of public intimacy between men; (ii) practices of women's degradation by men; and (iii) practices of recognition claims by women. The tension between the publicity inherent in the routine passing of notes and the ambiguity of their contents calls for a more nuanced theorization of gendered power practices, which transcends the accepted dichotomy of doing and undoing gender, reproducing or challenging the symbolic gender order. The findings show that gendered micro‐practices can become polysemic symbolic spaces in which women redirect the flow of power, if only temporarily and locally, and turn it into a multidirectional and multi‐agentic resource. The conceptual contribution of these findings is discussed in terms of the positioning of women in hyper‐masculine environments as pragmatic subjects who (re‐)construct mechanisms of power out of the restricted repertoire available to them.     

The Formation of English Cyber- neologism

Based on the lexical word-building process, this paper firstly analyzes the characteristics of English cyber-neologism and then explores the formations of it in recent ten years, and finally discusses its influence on the formation of Chinese.