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Bunčić, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0002-1090-8907 (2004). Энантиосемия внутриязыковая и межъязыковая как проблема коммуникации. In: “Słowa, słowa, słowa”... w komunikacji językowej II, pp. 207-212. Gdańsk: Fundacja Rozwoju Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego.

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Abstract

There is an amazing phenomenon in languages: a combination of antonymy and homonymy, i.e. the expression of opposite meanings by one word. One of the best-known examples is Latin altus, meaning both ‘high’ (e.g. altus mons ‘high mountain’) and ‘deep’ (e.g. altus lacus ‘deep lake’). However, remarkable as this fact may seem, it does not impede communication. A phenomenon similar to this can also be observed between different languages, e.g. Polish czerstwy chleb ‘stale bread’ vs. Czech čerstvý chléb ‘fresh bread’, or English absolutely (as a reply) ‘yes, absolutely’ vs. Polish absolutnie ‘no, absolutely not’. Cases like these, however, can indeed produce severe misunderstandings. The difference between these two phenomena clearly lies in the different communicative situations. So how does “normal” communication among native speakers work, and what is communication in a second language lacking? An important role seems to be played by context and co-text, cultural background knowledge, redundancy, and strategies employed by the sender to prevent the receiver from misunderstanding the message. — English translation of the paper available at https://doi.org/10.18716/omp.64.2 (clickable link below).

Item Type:	Book Section
Translated title:	Title Language Innersprachliche und zwischensprachliche Enantiosemie als Kommunikationsproblem German Intralingual and crosslinguistic enantiosemy as a communicative problem English
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bunčić, Daniel daniel@buncic.de https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1090-8907 UNSPECIFIED
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Grabska, Marcelina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-59915
Identification Number:	10.18716/bun/enan
Title of Book:	“Słowa, słowa, słowa”... w komunikacji językowej II
Page Range:	pp. 207-212
Date:	2004
Publisher:	Fundacja Rozwoju Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
Place of Publication:	Gdańsk
Language:	Russian
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 5: Moderne Sprachen und Kulturen > Slavisches Institut
Subjects:	Language, Linguistics Other languages
Related URLs:	https://doi.org/10.18716/omp.64.2
Refereed:	No
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/5998