Can the choice of a particular sense of a polysemous word influence how a message is received?

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One example of polysemy is the word 'sound'. This word has a very large number of meanings. It has 19 noun meanings, 12 adjective meanings, 12 verb meanings, 4 ... The synchronic aspect of advertising polysemy can be explained through an example of the advertisement which means one thing to one group of consumers and ... Nov 21, 2016 ... A polyseme is a word with several related meanings. Such as man or bank. However, bank as in river bank isn't a polyseme, it's a homonym/homograph. Jul 28, 2019 ... For example, in our application we could use Sem [CryptoHash, KeyValueStore k v] a or Sem [KeyValueStore k v, CryptoHash] a . We are only ... Polysemy refers to the property of a word by which it can have multiple related meanings. For example, the word ''head'' is a polysem that means ''in a leading ... Polysemy is the capacity for a sign (e.g. a symbol, morpheme, word, or phrase) to have multiple related meanings. For example, a word can have several word ... Polysemy refers to a single word with more than one meaning. The multiple meanings are listed under one entry in a dictionary. What is polysemy? A word having multiple meanings. Playing with Meanings ... Here are two examples of how polysemy has been used in literature. 'The ... It is well-known that derivational affixes can be highly polysemous, producing a range of different, often related, meanings. For example, English deverbal ... Jun 15, 2014 ... There are distinct usages of the word – either as a body part or as a scale unit (1 foot = 30.48 centimetres). Even though it appears that these ...
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