Phenomena of Ambiguity and the Uncertainty of Language

Nankai University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) 3:47-55 (1997)
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Abstract

Natural language words, the statement of "ambiguity" is the language system, an expression of uncertainty. Sure and uncertainty, more than one meaning and meaning, vague and precise, specific and general, are opposites. In verbal communication activities ambiguity that should be excluded, but if language users in the communicative activities ill-considered, or an oversight, did not rule out this ambiguity, it will affect the communication of the exercise. This is the so-called "ambiguity." Ambiguity is fundamentally not a linguistic theory or grammar issues, but a logic error. Any natural language is an organic whole. This is not subordinate to the whole speech large-scale systems. Dependence on context is a prominent feature of natural language, so the language can not be studied in the context of language systems and cultural traditions and its dependent fragmentation

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