Theme: polysemy subject: Lexicology Compiled by: Tursunboyev Sardor, group -60 Supervisor: F. f f. d. (PhD) Gavharoy Isroiljon kizi Andizhan 2023 Theme: Polysemy

The subject of our research Polysemy is different because it is related to human knowledge the diversity of knowledge among peoples is also reflected in the polysemy of their national language.
The object of our research Possibilities of the emergence of polysemantic words in a given language It is thought that there are many and that polysemy in the language is extremely developed exchange is never a problem. His the development of the objective existence is interdependently understood, them the result of comparative study, the reflection of developments in language will be. That is, polysemy is a sign of civilization. In which nation science, technology, If culture, art, developed, that nation is an objective entity the more he sees their relationship, the more he compares them to each other and is more reflected in their language. By changing the meanings of words continuous developments are taking place. And this is polysemantic It is the reason for the development of words, that is, surrounding a person polysemy in the case of being able to generalize existing existence existing and developing.
Contant of the work. The present course work consists of four parts: introduction, the main part conclusion, references.

1. What Is Polysemy?
Polysemy is characterized as the phenomenon whereby a single word form is associated with two or several related senses, as in (1) below:
1a.John has his moth full of food.
1b.Mary kissed him on the mouth.
1c.You can see the mouth of the river from here.
The relations between the senses are often metonymic (part-for-whole), as in (1d) to (1f), or metaphorical, as in (1g). Polysemy is contrasted with monosemy, on the one hand, and with homonymy, on the other. While a monosemous word form has only one meaning, a homonymous word form is associated with two or several unrelated meanings (e.g., coach: ‘bus’, ‘sports instructor’), and is standardly viewed as involving different lexemes (e.g., COACH1, COACH2).
Polysemy is pervasive in natural languages, and affects both content and function words. While deciding which sense is intended on a given occasion of use rarely seems to cause any difficulty for speakers of a language, polysemy has proved notoriously difficult to treat both theoretically and empirically. Some of the questions that have occupied linguists, philosophers, and psychologists interested in the phenomenon concern: (i) the representation, access, and storage of polysemous senses in the mental lexicon; (ii) how to deal with polysemous words in a compositional theory of meaning; and (iii) how novel senses of a word arise and are understood in the course of communication. In psycholinguistics, the debate revolves mainly around the differences in access, storage, and representation of polysemous senses vis-à-vis homonymous meanings (the different related meanings of polysemous expressions are usually called senses). Computational and theoretical linguistics (Asher, 2011; Copestake & Briscoe, 1995; Jackendoff, 2002; Pustejovsky, 1995) describe models that can integrate various forms of polysemy into a compositional theory of meaning. Pragmaticists (Carston, 2002, 2016; Falkum, 2011), psychologists (Srinivasan & Rabagliati, 2015), philosophers of language (Recanati, 2004, 2016; Vicente, 2015) and recently also cognitive linguistics (Evans, 2009, 2015) propose accounts of how polysemous senses arise and are understood, with an eye on the issue of whether the generation of senses reflects our conceptual structures. Distributional semantics approaches describe and distinguish senses on the basis of words’ distributional properties, extracted by statistical analysis of the contexts in which words occur (under the assumption that words with similar distributional properties have similar semantic properties (Lenci, 2008; Baroni, Bernardi, & Zamparelli, 2014). Lexicographers (Kilgarriff, 1992, Hank, 2013) also try to tackle the question of how many senses a polysemous expression can be said to have mainly by looking at collocation patterns. A trend towards an increasing interaction between these fields can be observed, as the different research topics just listed are intimately related.