Research on Ambiguity in English Learning

DOI

10.2991/hss-17.2017.36How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ambiguity, Subjunctive mood, Polysemy, Idiom, Ambiguity tolerance.

Abstract

Ambiguity is a kind of linguistic phenomenon. It is a barrier for English learners to get exact information. It mainly appears in voice, grammar and vocabulary. Many researchers have expounded the phenomenon. This paper lays particular emphasis on grammatical structure, subjunctive mood, polysemants and idioms and their causes. English learners are expected to improve their cognitive ability and ambiguity tolerance, and adopt positive attitude to remove ambiguity so as to learn English efficiently.

Copyright

© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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