SPEECH FUNCTION IN FEATURE STORIES IN READER™S DIGEST

Authors

  • Arta Rosaen
  • Lidiman Sinaga

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24114/jalu.v1i1.378

Abstract

This study is aimed to find out the dominant type and to explain the meaning of the Speech Functions used in Feature Stories of Reader™s Digest Magazines; The Council of Dads, Blind Optimism, and Where Children Sleep. The data were analyzed based on the 4 types of Speech Function suggested by Halliday (1994). The result shows that the most dominant type of Speech Function used in Reader™s Digest™ Feature Stories was statement which is realized by declarative mood. This indicate that the writer in order to deliver the ˜human interest™ to the readers, entertain the readers, describing the news hook to the reader, to narrated in a chronological the stories for the readers are by using Statements.   Key words: Speech functions, feature stories.

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Published

2012-04-01

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2012)

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