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For I am a bear of very CittCe brain and bong words bother me.
Winnie the Pooh (A. A. Milne)
Discussion

1. 
   The semantic structure of the polysemantic word as a hierarchy of its lexico-semantic variants /LSV/.
   
2. 
   Ways of discriminating between LSV:
   

1. 
   syntagmatic approach;
   
2. 
   paradigmatic approach.
   

3. 
   Classifications of meanings of the polysemantic word:
   

1. 
   synchronic paradigmatic classification (direct and indirect meanings; concrete and abstract meanings; central and peripheral meanings; narrow and extended meanings; general and special meanings, etc.);
   
2. 
   diachronic classification (etymological meaning, archaic meaning, obsolete meaning, present-day meaning, original meaning);
   
3. 
   stylistic classification (stylistically neutral meanings and stylistically coloured meanings / colloquial, slang, poetic, scientific, etc).
   

4. 
   Types of polysemy (radial, chain, radial-chain).
   
5. 
   Types of relationships between the meanings of the polysemantic word (intersection, inclusion, semantic homonymy).
   
6. 
   Classification of homonyms.
   
7. 
   Sources of homonymy.
   

Terminology
Monosemy is the existence within one word of only one meaning.
Polysemy [po'lisimi], ['polosi(:)mi] or [_Jpoli'si:mi] is diversity of meanings; the existence within one word of several connected meanings as the result of the development and changes of its original meaning.
Context is a) the linguistic environment of a unit of language which re­veals the conditions and the characteristic features of its usage in speech; b) the semantically complete passage of written speech sufficient to establish the meaning of a given word (phrase). In lexical context the indication comes from the lexical meaning of the indicator (e.g. a black tie, black ingratitude). In syn­tactical context the indication comes from the syntactic structure (e.g. make a toy, make somebody do something). In mixed context the indication comes both from the lexical meaning of the key-word and the syntactic structure the word in question is used in.