The Study of Ambiguity in social context of Iranian newspapers

This research named “The study of ambiguity in social context of Iranian newspapers” is a semantic-based approach. The aim of this study is to identify and introduce the ambiguous sentences used in the social pages of newspapers. This research sought to find appropriate answer for the four given Hypotheses. According to the first hypothesis, the lexical ambiguities are the most types of ambiguities used in the contexts of social news in Iran. The second hypothesis discuss that structural ambiguities are also used in Iranian newspapers. The third hypothesis, introduced “Iran” daily newspaper as the newspaper, which contains the most ambiguous sentences. According to the last hypothesis in this research, context and the correct use of punctuation signs can play consequential roles in removing ambiguity from the language in spoken and written forms. This research is a descriptive analysis and data have been collected in the library. To carry out this research, pages of social and urban topics in 8 newspapers as Hamshahri, Iran, sharq, Etemad, Jam-e-Jam, Keyhan, Haft-e-sobh, and Mardomsalari have been studied in the period of four months. Based on the results of the present study, structural ambiguities are the most types of ambiguities that can be found in the context of the Iran's news media.