Pinyin: hán hün Meaning: unclear.
Basic explanation:
Ambiguity, also known as polysemy or polysemy, is one of the important aesthetic characteristics of literature. It refers to a language that seems to have a single and definite meaning, but it contains multiple and uncertain meanings, which makes readers remember deeply. Ambiguity makes readers feel that there are multiple meanings and various "reading methods" when reading literary works. William Empson has the greatest influence on fuzzy theory.
Source:
The word "ambiguity" comes from the Latin word "ambiguity itas", which originally means "two-way" or "displacement". Since the British critic William Empson (1906- 1984) published his masterpiece Seven Ambiguities (1930), ambiguity has become one of the important terms in western literary theory.
It is not only used to express a strategy of literary creation, but also to refer to a complex literary phenomenon; It can not only express the ambiguity caused by the author intentionally or unintentionally, but also express the confusion in the reader's mind (mainly in semantics, grammar and logic). Ambiguity is not only an indispensable magic weapon in the hands of new criticism, but also inextricably linked with the theoretical concept of "uncertainty" in post-modern literary theory.