Р е ф е р а т homonyms in the English language Знобищева Мария Сергеевна ученица «Г» класса Головко Ольга Владимировна Тамбов 2013 Lyceum 29 Report Homonyms in the English language Znobishcheva Masha g teacher: Golovko O

1.1. The actuality and purposes of the work

The actuality of this work is caused by several important points. We should say that the appearance of new, homonymic meanings is one of the main trends in the development of Modern English, especially in its colloquial layer, which, in its turn is supported by the development of modern informational technologies and simplification of alive speech. First of all, homonyms help to make language visible. Secondly, homonyms help students to be flexible and effective users of language. So the significance of my work can be proved by the following reasons:

1) Studying of homonyms is one of the developing branches of lexicology nowadays.

2) Studying of homonyms reflects the general trend of language simplification.

3) Homonymic meanings of words are closely connected with the development of modern information technologies.

4) The investigation of homonyms and their differentiation from polysemous words hasn’t sufficiently been investigated. My work is one of the attempts to investigate this problem.

Now we are able to formulate the general purposes of the work.

1) To study different sources of homonyms.

2) To study classifications of homonyms.

3) To investigate the interface between polysemy and homonymy.

3) To help students use homonyms in the course of studying English.

The practical significance of the work can be reflected in the following items:

1) The work can be used as a good source of information for students in schools and colleges.

2) People who are interested in linguistics will find a lot of interesting facts.

3) Those, who would like to avoid mistakes in communication, will find a lot of interesting and important information in this work.

Having said that some linguists find this topic interesting I should mention that my work is based upon the investigations made by a number of brilliant lexicologists such as A.I.Smirnitsky, N.Buranov and some others.