Russian Homonymy Multidimensional Study

Homonymy is an important language phenomenon in fields of linguistics. However, the current special academic study of this phenomenon has not developed thoroughly in Russian Language Schools. The only a small amount of studies remain maily in the field of vocabulary. Based on the existing researches, this paper carries out homonymy research from different points of views, like lexicology, semantics, rhetoric, pragmatics, comparative linguistics and so on. On the basis of semantic analysis, the paper tries to analyze the rhetorical and pragmatic functions of homonymy, make a comparison of homonymy between Russian and Chinese, pointing out the similarities and differences between the two languages, thus applies the research results to teaching practice.