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mensagens monocémicas

English translation: monosemic messages

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Portuguese term or phrase:mensagens monocémicas
English translation:monosemic messages
Entered by: Fiona N�voa

15:38 Jul 7, 2003
Portuguese to English translations [Non-PRO]
Science
Portuguese term or phrase: mensagens monocémicas
a criação das mensagens monocémicas, carcaterísticas da linguagem gráfica projectual
monosemic messages
Explanation:
Monossémica é a mensagem que possui um único significado, diferentemente da mensagem polissémica. Um texto, de exemplo:

Quando ouvi falar em mensagens monossémicas, polissémicas e pansémicas (só faltaram as leucémicas) não pude deixar de esboçar um sorriso. Embora compreendesse de imediato o que o monitor queria dizer na sua, achei que estavam a fazer de nós uns pategos, uns lorpas, a quem se pretende vender a banha da cobra. "Ai filhas, foi cá uma seca!" (primeira referência abaixo).

Alguns exemplos e referências de MONOSEMIC em inglês:

Literary Language and Complex Literature
... more commonly studied varieties. The latter is language that is functionally monosemic, carrying a single meaning. All texts, of ...
www.sp.uconn.edu/~jbl00001/INTRONW.htm

[PDF]? ? ? ?
... 3.3.1 A single sense In this first experiment, only monosemic words are expanded and the expansion concerns only monosemic synonyms. ...
www.sinequa.com/sq-lab-doc/SL-2002-012-USIRF-final.pdf

[PDF]Managing Synonymy and Polysemy in a Document Retrieval System ...
... 3 . 3 . 1 A s i n g l e s e n s e In this first experiment, only monosemic
words are expanded and the expansion concerns only monosemic synonyms. ...
www.sinequa.com/sq-lab-doc/lrec2002.pdf

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monosemic messages


Explanation:
Monossémica é a mensagem que possui um único significado, diferentemente da mensagem polissémica. Um texto, de exemplo:

Quando ouvi falar em mensagens monossémicas, polissémicas e pansémicas (só faltaram as leucémicas) não pude deixar de esboçar um sorriso. Embora compreendesse de imediato o que o monitor queria dizer na sua, achei que estavam a fazer de nós uns pategos, uns lorpas, a quem se pretende vender a banha da cobra. "Ai filhas, foi cá uma seca!" (primeira referência abaixo).

Alguns exemplos e referências de MONOSEMIC em inglês:

Literary Language and Complex Literature
... more commonly studied varieties. The latter is language that is functionally monosemic, carrying a single meaning. All texts, of ...
www.sp.uconn.edu/~jbl00001/INTRONW.htm

[PDF]? ? ? ?
... 3.3.1 A single sense In this first experiment, only monosemic words are expanded and the expansion concerns only monosemic synonyms. ...
www.sinequa.com/sq-lab-doc/SL-2002-012-USIRF-final.pdf

[PDF]Managing Synonymy and Polysemy in a Document Retrieval System ...
... 3 . 3 . 1 A s i n g l e s e n s e In this first experiment, only monosemic
words are expanded and the expansion concerns only monosemic synonyms. ...
www.sinequa.com/sq-lab-doc/lrec2002.pdf




    Reference: http://nautilus.fis.uc.pt/personal/vieira/rios/cap2.htm
    Reference: http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~jbl00001/INTRONW.htm
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