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    PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS Diajukan Sebagai Tugas Akhir pada Mata Kuliah Semantic and Pragmatic of English Muhammad Rizki Rastra 1206268655 Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya Universitas Indonesia 2013 I. Introduction Pragmatic is the study of how meanings are used by speaker. In pragmatic‚ meaning has contextual meaning‚ and we can have several meanings just from one utterance‚ on the other words‚ the meaning of one utterance is varied. There are also interlocutors in

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    Hemingway‚ the reader is given the perspectives of three characters: the old man‚ the younger waiter‚ and the old waiter. Hemingway uses an impartial omniscient narrator‚ who sees inside the minds of the characters‚ but the narrator doesn’t judge on their actions or thoughts. The narrator begins the story with the old man‚ and then moves the focus over to the younger waiter‚ and then ends the story with the old waiter. The reader gains knowledge of each character and why they feel the way they do‚ which

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    Well-Lighted Place” the older waiter goes through morose character transformation. In the beginning he is extremely unware of how empty his life is‚ but as the story progresses he understands that there is truly nothing that can bring him joy or fulfillment. In the beginning of “A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place” the older waiter shows the significant difference between younger and older people. He demonstrates this by seeing certain similarities between him and both the old man and waiter. Giving a reason to believe

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    Hemingway’s “A Clean Well- Lighted Place” was a short story about two waiters discussing the attempted suicide of an old man‚ who regularly comes to the bar. After reading over once‚ the story seems to have no direction or point. The story seems to just be random and just telling about how a man tried to kill himself. When read again‚ and more meticulously‚ an underlying meaning and other information can be found in the story. The meaning and information however can only be found by techniques or

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    a tale of two waiters who were working late at night in a cafe‚ and their responses to the final customer—a lonely‚ deaf old man getting drunk. As I delved further into the story‚ I was able to understand the deeper meanings of Hemingway’s characters and the overall significance of the narrative. One of my reactions to Hemingway’s short story was its characters. The younger waiter‚ who is seemingly inconsiderable of others‚ wishes that the old man would leave while the older waiter is more sympathetic

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    experience about the emptiness of life throughout their life. In the story of Ernest Hemingway‚ “A clean and well lighted place” is a great example about the loneliness and a nothingness of a person who has experience. The story is about how the waiters were looking at the old man at the end the bar who has money but still depress about how he feel loneliness and emptiness. The café is a great location which represents the opposite of nothingness. In a clean‚ well-lighted café‚ despair and depression

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    Place” by Ernest Hemingway is a short story where two waiters in a Spanish café are waiting one night for their last customer‚ an old deaf man‚ to leave. As they wait‚ they talk about the old man ’s recent suicide attempt. The younger waiter is impatient to leave and tells the deaf old man he wishes the old man’s suicide attempt had been successful. The younger waiter has a wife waiting in bed for him and is unsympathetic when the older waiter says that the old man once had a wife. Hemingway ’s omniscient

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    Hemingway’s “A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place‚” two un-named waiters‚ one young and one older‚ have conflicting attitudes and views towards an old drunk customer. First‚ the older waiter can relate more to the old man than the younger waiter. For example‚ “I am of those who like to stay late at the café.” (145). The older waiter said this because he felt a desire not for sleep‚ but for the light in place of night. Neither the old drunk nor the older waiter wanted to leave by choice‚ but because of the younger

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    are the two waiters and the old man. The waiters stay at the café throughout the story. The café is‚ as the title states‚ clean and well lit.  It’s a pleasant café‚ and the light creates the shadows of leaves at night. The story is set late at night‚ and the café is quiet; only the two waiters and a single customer‚ the old man‚ sit there. Other than that‚ we actually don’t know anything about the place. Other than majority of the story taking place in the clean café‚ the older waiter stops for a

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