Is this "negócio" polysemy or homonymy?

• Autor(a) principal: Gritti, Letícia Lemos
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: dos Santos, Sandra Mara Fernandes, Teixeira, Lovania Roehrig, Deon, Robson
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da ANPOLL (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistadaanpoll.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/1251
• topic: Polysemy; Homonymy; Semantics. Ambiguity; Negócio; Polissemia; Homonímia; Semântica; Ambiguidade; Negócio

This article analyzes the item negócio from a semantic point of view. This expression is used in different contexts - formal and informal ones - in Brazilian Portuguese. Negócio is discussed using the concept of ambiguity, which is the multiple capacity of signification of a word in certain contexts. More specifically, this study investigates if the lexical ambiguity of negócio is generated by Polysemy or/and by Homonymy, two different types of ambiguities. The main concepts came from the following works: Ilari and Geraldi (1987, 2006), Cambrussi and Poll (2015), Ferraz (2014), Pustejovsky, (1995), Lyons (1977) and Cançado (2008). We conclude that negócio is able to establish a semantic relation of ambiguity either by polysemy or by homonymy, depending on the linguistic context.