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SOURCE:	Philology. Theory & Practice. Tambov: Gramota, 2013. № 8. Part 1. P. 56-59.
SCIENTIFIC AREA:	Philological Sciences
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DIFFICULTIES OF USING POLYSEMANTIC LEXEMES IN THE MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Garifullina El'vira Il'dusovna, Koznova Ol'ga Aleksandrovna
Kazan’ National Research Technical University named after A. N. Tupolev (Branch "Vostok") in Chistopol'

Abstract. The authors consider the phenomena of ambiguity and polysemy in the modern English language, analyze the common mistakes in the use of some lexical units, and pay special attention to the difficulty of ambiguous words translation associated with the mentality and world view of different languages native speakers??, which leads to misunderstandings.

Key words and phrases: многозначность, полисемия, лексическая единица, закрепившийся казуализм, слова-хамелеоны, ambiguity, polysemy, lexical unit, ingrained casualism, weasel words

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