Lexical Ambiguity Essay

According to all the analysis on six figures of the cartoon strips above, it can be said that ambiguity can happen in various way and situation. It also involve in our daily life. All of the six cartoon strips above has its own type of ambiguity which is semantic and lexical ambiguity. The first figure is about the phrase of ‘funny bone’ which is ambiguous. This phrase is the lexical ambiguity which is involve the two meaning of it which is the first is the part of the elbow over which passes the ulnar nerve, which may cause numbness and pain along the forearm and hand if knocked and the other meaning is a person that has a sense of humor as located in an imaginary physical organ. But in this first cartoon strips, ambiguity also can be seen from the text that women is reading because we do not know for …show more content…
This is because the word “Indian” can be used in different meaning and different context because that word is homonymy. This is the same with the analysis of the word ‘bank’ which is also has different meaning. First are the river bank and the other one is financial institution. The same goes to the word ‘Indian’ which can bring the meaning of indigenous peoples who lived in North, South, or Central America before the Europeans arrived, and the common name for them now is Native Americans and also another meaning of ‘Indian’ is an Indian citizen, or person of Indian origin which relating to India or to its culture and people.
Next, in figure three is discussed about the phrase of ‘Miss France’. This phrases also one of the types of lexical ambiguity. This is because in this cartoon strip is about conversation between two female. The first female said that she is not pageant contestant but she miss France. The ambiguity here is when she said that she is not pageant contestant although she has a title of miss France around her body or maybe she just express her emotion because she miss the country of