Our hypothesis, thus, is that gesture, together with linguistic cues, could also play a relevant part in the phenomenon of polysemy. The audiovisual and textual information was obtained from the ...

The risks executive teams espouse have little to do with the dangers CIOs deal with every day. Still, trying to avoid those ...

In small part, both ‘bankruptcy’ and complexity of the English language are amply captured by the existence of homonyms, polysemy and homophones. Besides, there are other aspects like context ...

In Papers of the 46th Algonquian Conference, Macaulay, Monica and Margaret Noodin (eds.). 2016. Anything Goes: Extreme Polysemy in Lexical Semantic Change. American Speech 91(2):139-165. (With Samatha ...

Big and small, Come and go, Up and down. Polysemy – A word is polysemous when it has two or more related meanings. In this case the word takes one form but can be used to mean two different things. In ...

The letter play you refer to usually comes in the form of “when you feel STRESSED, eat DESSERTS.” STRESSED/ DESSERTS is a palindrome — a statement that reads the same backwards and forwards, such as ...

We remember the great architectural historian and theorist, who left us aged 95, through his late-millennium essay, dedicated ...

Best case they fail and will be held accountable. You can’t lose. Those who encourage risk-taking often ignore its polysemy. One meaning: initiatives that, as outlined above, have potential ...