Teaching lexical ambiguity: the role of the dictionary

Teaching lexical ambiguity: the role of the dictionary

This paper focuses on the role of the dictionary in teaching lexical ambiguity phenomena connected to polysemy, homonymy, and part-of-speech trans­categorization. It aims to show the peculiarities of the way lexical ambiguity is treated by lexicography, and how these peculiarities can be exploited a...

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Main Author: Federica Casadei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2021-07-01
Series:Italiano a scuola
Subjects:
lessicography and lessicology
vocabulary teaching
lexical ambiguity
role of the dictionary in teaching
Online Access:https://italianoascuola.unibo.it/article/view/12932
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spelling doaj-9259587e735c491795c2ef653fac851e2021-07-14T12:26:41ZengUniversity of BolognaItaliano a scuola2704-81282021-07-013396610.6092/issn.2704-8128/1293211243Teaching lexical ambiguity: the role of the dictionaryFederica Casadei0Università della TusciaThis paper focuses on the role of the dictionary in teaching lexical ambiguity phenomena connected to polysemy, homonymy, and part-of-speech trans­categorization. It aims to show the peculiarities of the way lexical ambiguity is treated by lexicography, and how these peculiarities can be exploited as useful tools to reflect on the lexicon and increase lexical awareness. In the final part of the paper, some ideas for activities on lexical ambiguity using dictionaries are presented.https://italianoascuola.unibo.it/article/view/12932lessicography and lessicologyvocabulary teachinglexical ambiguityrole of the dictionary in teaching
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Teaching lexical ambiguity: the role of the dictionary
Italiano a scuola
lessicography and lessicology
vocabulary teaching
lexical ambiguity
role of the dictionary in teaching
author_facet Federica Casadei
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title Teaching lexical ambiguity: the role of the dictionary
title_short Teaching lexical ambiguity: the role of the dictionary
title_full Teaching lexical ambiguity: the role of the dictionary
title_fullStr Teaching lexical ambiguity: the role of the dictionary
title_full_unstemmed Teaching lexical ambiguity: the role of the dictionary
title_sort teaching lexical ambiguity: the role of the dictionary
publisher University of Bologna
series Italiano a scuola
issn 2704-8128
publishDate 2021-07-01
description This paper focuses on the role of the dictionary in teaching lexical ambiguity phenomena connected to polysemy, homonymy, and part-of-speech trans­categorization. It aims to show the peculiarities of the way lexical ambiguity is treated by lexicography, and how these peculiarities can be exploited as useful tools to reflect on the lexicon and increase lexical awareness. In the final part of the paper, some ideas for activities on lexical ambiguity using dictionaries are presented.
topic lessicography and lessicology
vocabulary teaching
lexical ambiguity
role of the dictionary in teaching
url https://italianoascuola.unibo.it/article/view/12932
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