Лексикология английского языка. Иванова Н.К. - 19 стр.

          2. КЛАССИФИКАЦИЯ ЛЕКСИКИ ПО СХОДСТВУ ФОРМЫ

         ОМОНИМИЯ – совпадение формы при нетождественности содержания.

     Омонимичными могут слова, формы (омоформы), аффиксы. Омонимами могут быть
слова, принадлежащие как к одной части речи, так и к разным.
     Графически одинаковые омонимы называются омографы (дифференцируются
фонетически): tear /t/- tear /te/; raw /r/ - /r/, bass / bes/- /b/, etc.
     Фонетически одинаковые слова называются омофоны и различаются графически:
Sun-son, pear- pair, bare- bear, cell- sell, sail- sale, air- heir, scent-sent-cent.

R Ваши примеры:

     В речи пониманию омонимов служат контекст и ситуация.
     Омонимы часто применяются в шутках, каламбурах, специально используются в
рекламе, газетных заголовках и т.д.
     Ложные омонимы называются паронимами – слова похожие, но не одинаковые по
форме. Например,
        Policy – politics, physicist – physician, company – campaign, personal - personnel

R Analyse the jokes:

She:   Now that we are engaged, dear, you’ll give me a ring, won’t you?
He:    Yes, dear, certainly. What’s your telephone number?

       A Scotchman was going on an excursion to New York. He handed the agent a ten-dollar
       bill as the agent call “Change at Jersey City”.
       “no jokes now – I want my change right away!” said the frightened Scotchman.

       “What’s the difference between soldiers and girls?”
       “The soldier faces powder. Girls powder faces”.

       “My grandfather lived to be nearly ninety and never used glasses”.
       “Well, lot of people prefer to drink from the bottle”.

Policeman: Did you see the sign “Fine for Parking?
Driver:    Yes, I agree with it. It’s really a good place.

      A curious tourist, after passing a huge field of tomatoes alongside the road, stopped and asked
the farmer what he did with these tomatoes.
      “Well,” said the farmer. “ We eat what we can and what we can’t eat we can”.
      The man went back to his car greatly surprised and said to his wife’ “I think, he must be crazy.
He said they ate what they could and what they couldn’t they could.


R Analyse and Translate:

       bass /bes/, n - deep sounding, low in tone ,     bass /bs/ n, pl unchanged -
       (musical part for, or singer) having the          kinds of fish used as food
       lowest possible adult male voice                  caught in rivers, lakes and in the
                                                         ocean.