Feldman, Martha. 1991. "The Meanings of Ambiguity: Learning From Stories and Metaphors." In Reframing Organisational Cutlure, edited by Frost et al, 145-155. Newlands Park, CA: Sage.Martha S. Feldman, "The Meaning of Ambiguity: Learning from Stories and Metaphors," in Peter J. Frost et...
This is just syntactic ambiguity in that the lack of punctuation has allowed multiple meanings. Due to this ambiguity, someone without prior knowledge about penguins could fail to correctly interpret the title's meaning. Sennet, Adam, "Ambiguity," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021...
ambiguity (ˌæmbɪˈɡjuːɪtɪ) n,pl-ties 1.the possibility of interpreting an expression in two or more distinct ways 2.an instance of this, as in the sentencethey are cooking apples 3.vagueness or uncertainty of meaning:there are several ambiguities in the situation. ...
Many of the houses where circles were being held were disturbed by crowds who would gather together after nightfall and with yells, cries, whistles and occasional breaking of windows try to molest the quiet investigators in their unholy work of "waking the dead," as one...
having more than one possible meaning.After the cat caught the mouse, it diedis an ambiguous statement (ieitis not clear whether it = the cat or = the mouse).ambiguo amˈbiguouslyadverb ambiguamente, de forma ambigua ˌambiˈguity(-ˈgjuː-)noun ...
I. Of Kings' Treasuries 一、国王金库里的芝麻 I BELIEVE, ladies and gentlemen, that my first duty this evening is to ask your pardon for the ambiguity of title under which the subject of lecture has been announced; and for having endeavoured, as you may ultimately think, to obtain ...
5:the ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of Hawthorne's art 模糊性是霍桑艺术的显著特征之一。 象征意义: ①:Hawthorne is a master of symbolism, which he took from the Puritan tradition and bequeathed to American literature in a revivified form ...
The meaning here has nothing to do with the "square oneself with" usage of the word. A quick ngrams search turns up, for example: The bill had not passed and we did not know what was going to happen and we did not get squared away until July 11, And I was alone at the time, ...
A. This ambiguity will last forever and there’s no way to make it definitive. B. The nuance of different wines while being tasted by experts is very hard to discover. C. The diversity of wines in theory. D. None of the above. ...
side. . Inadequate context is often the cause of ambiguity. . ompounding is the process of creating new words by combining affixes and bases. . In some pairs of antonyms, one term may cover the meaning of the other word. . In a natural language, most words are non-motivated. . ...