What meanings does a polysemantic word ‘nice’ have in the fol-lowing sentences? What is the role of the context?
1. One of the nicest things about her is her sense of humour.
2. I asked him in the nicest possible way not to park in front of my garage.
3. He is not very nice to her when he has had a few drinks.
4. The discussion on one of the nice points of law seemed to be endless.
5. You need a nice hot bath after such a tiring day.
6. He has a nice taste in garment.
7. This is a nice mess you’ve got us into!
8. She’s not too nice in her business methods.
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1. nicest - best, the role is to express sympathy
2.nicest - delicate, the role is to hide the anger by using a more suiteable word.
3.not very nice - not good or pleasent, it expresses a negative impact he has on her.
4.one of the nice points - pleasent, it expresses something pleasent they talked about.
5.a nice hot bath - pleasureable, the role is to express something they could do to bring pleasure to themselves after a difficult day.
6.a nice taste - agreeable/likeable, the role of the word nice in this phrase is to show that the person is agreeing and liking their sense of fashion.
7.nice mess - unpleasent, in this sentence, nice is used in an ironic way to express an unpleasent event that happened.
8.not too nice- not good, the role of nice in this sentence is to show dissapointment in something the other person does.
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