a Case of ambiguity in the Ernest Hemingway's short stories: semantics study

This thesis examines a case of ambiguity in the Ernest Hemingway’s short stories. It investigates types and causes of ambiguity that appears in the Ernest Hemingway’s short stories. There are two points of this research, first is the types of ambiguity found in Ernest Hemingway’s short stories, second is the causes of ambiguity found in Ernest Hemingway’s short stories. The researcher used descriptive qualitative method to describe finding and result. The descriptive method applied to investigate the types of ambiguity and the causes of ambiguity that appeared in Ernest Hemingway’s short stories. The data source were collected by downloading the short stories from internet. Afterwards, the investigating was continued by identifying and classifying the types and the causes of ambiguity in the short story. As the result, the researcher found 45 data which contain of ambiguity phenomenon. The data are 32 data for lexical ambiguity, 6 data for structural ambiguity and 7 data for referential ambiguity. Besides, the researcher found 11 data of the causes of ambiguity those are; 1 data for word order, 2 data for improper or missing punctuation and 8 data for faulty pronoun reference.