Polonius
Polonius is a character in Shakespeare's Hamlet
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Polonius (character)
Polonius is a cunning courtier
Polonius is a senile fool
Polonius is a concerned father
dependent elements, may differentiate between meanings or carry meaning themselves (e.g. phoneme, grapheme, morpheme)
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independent elements, may consist of subelements and carry meaning (e.g. word)
structure of two or more elements, expandable, may be composed ad hoc or be established components (e.g. phraseme, single phrase, figure).
one or more elements and/or complex elements, which may be structurally linked and form a self-contained unit of meaning (e.g. sentence; group of figures)
the part of a whole which carries a message, is thematically essentially self-contained, and which is structurally and/or thematically separated from the whole it belongs to (e.g. section of text/discourse/speech; picture (with cotext))
network of thematically, structurally and/or functionally linked sub-units, separated and independent from other complexes, and complete in itself (e.g. text; discourse; speech; poem; dramatic text; picture and circumstances of reception)
an in principle indefinite amount of thematically, structurally and/or functionally comparable complexes (e.g. thematically, structurally and/or functionally linked texts/discourses/speeches/pictures in comparison; political debate)
Interpretations of Polonius are varied. This is caused by the fact that utterances ascribed to this character create the impression of inconsistency. Besides, Polonius himself uses ambiguity and this adds to the ambiguity of the character as it is not clear which meaning is intended by this character in the world of the play.
