英语语境的作用（The role of English Context）.docVIP

英语语境的作用（The role of English Context） Four, the role of context Have more than one meaning some word (polysemy), two or more than two completely different meaning words and might have a same form (homographs). So, people in the face of polysemy and homonymy phenomenon, why do not cause misunderstanding? This is the context (context), because the meaning of a word lies in its use in language. In a narrow sense, context is a word in that sentence, paragraph, or an article, that people usually say context; broadly speaking, context also includes talk time, location, surroundings and the communication between the speaker and the hearer all the way it is self-evident. The narrow context is called con-text (Linguistic). The generalized context is called linguistic outer ring; quot (extra-linguistic, context). Language context has two aspects: vocabulary and grammar. The lexical aspect of context refers to the collocation of words (collocation). We know that the word head has dozens of meanings, and it is obvious when it comes with different collocations: From, head, to, foot (from head to toe) A, head, of, state (head of state) A, head, of, cabbage (a Chinese cabbage) A department head (head of a department) To count heads (point number) One hundred head of sheep (one hundred sheep) At, the, head, of, a, list (at the beginning of the list) To, discuss, a, question, under, five, heads (five small topics) Use your head (use your head) To, lose, ones, head (killed) Two, heads, are, better, than, one. (two people, wisdom is better than one person) It is not difficult to see that it is the word head that makes the polysemous word head have a specific meaning on every occasion. Another example is the collocation of the following words. The meaning of the polysemous adjective hard is also reflected by the noun it modifies: Hard work (hard work) Hard blow (a heavy blow) Hard discipline (Stern discipline) Hard winter (severe winter) Hard heart (cold heart) A polysemous verb can als