Ambiguidade lexical numa perspectiva da semântica cognitiva

Abstract

This research presents a study on lexical ambiguity, taking into account the importance of cognitive aspects inherent to language, in conveying semantic knowledge in Portuguese. The analysis data will be lexical items such as: shit, drug, pest, shit. It aims to analyze the occurrence of this linguistic phenomenon, showing that the meaning is not only in the ontological reference relationship, but also in the minds of speakers and listeners. Its specific objectives are: to verify the aspects that can lead to the occurrence of ambiguity of meanings through a semantic-cognitive approach; demonstrate lexical semantics in the social use of language. The methodology used is of a qualitative nature, whose data were collected in books, scientific articles available online, in specialized magazines and in periodicals. The hypothesis of this work is the idea that there is a linguistic event that causes ambiguity in the lexical scope. That is, it exists at a certain moment in the language, in which speakers link the meanings from the properties of lexical items and expand their use in another context, this whole process takes place unconsciously, thus characterizing ambiguity. This study is based on Lexical Semantics of cognitive orientation based on authors such as Ferrarezi Júnior (2008), Ferrari (2011), Ilari (2013), Jakobson (2010), whose fundamental premise is the relationship between language and the mental constructs that , in some way, represent or are encoded in the semantic knowledge of the speaker. As a result, it is understood that the analyzed lexical items assume different meanings in the communicative act, showing that ambiguity is part of this construction process.