Investigating Badini Kurdish Speaker’s Awareness Towards Clarifying the Intended Meaning of Homonyms
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https://doi.org/10.14500/kujhss.v8n1y2025.pp478-485Keywords:
Badini Kurdish, Homonyms, Intended Meaning, Lexical Ambiguity, Speakers’ AwarenessAbstract
The study investigates the role of homonyms that causes lexical ambiguity, highlighting speaker’s awareness and difficulties in conveying intended meaning during communication. In this research, by using a qualitative method; the data have been collected from the students’ awareness of their Badini Kurdish via a test that includes thirty questions. On this basis, 100 EFL learners have been chosen from Nawroz University, translation department. The data were interpreted and analyzed via t-test. The results display that students fail to recognize the correct homonyms from their native language that is 59% incorrect versus 41% correct homonyms. As far as parts of speech included results show that on the basis of correct and incorrect measurement, prepositions section (82%) compared to the lowest correct answers in the verb section (43%). Also, the relative percentage of the correct answers exceeded 50% for both noun and adverb sections. The outcomes of this study display that students are (1) mostly weak in being aware of homonyms; (2) a lack of a standardized system of the Kurdish language; (3) difficulty of translation and writing in the mother tongue and the foreign language;(4) confusion of recognizing parts of speech in the language structure of both Kurdish and English. Typically, being aware of homonyms helps students to be precise in translation and assists them to distinguish between different word meanings. It also supports them to infer in contextual meanings and conducting critical text analysis for deeper or layered messages
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