MOOD REALIZED IN THE LETTER TO THE EDITOR BY NYTIMES.COM ON MARCH, 28th 2016

Abstract

This research paper is entitled Mood realized in the letter to the editor by Nytimes.com on
March, 28th 2016. This research is focused to identify the mood types and speech function
from letter to the editor rubric by Nytimes.com entitled ‘Electronic Prescription’. This research
uses descriptive qualitative method. The writers found 3 mood types namely declarative
positive, imperative and exclamative and 2 types of speech functions namely command and
statement. The declarative positive is used to give and deliver the information, then for
imperative is used to persuade, to give advice, commands, etc and exclamative is used to
express strong feelings. The speech functions command is used to ask someone to do anything
while statement is used to give and deliver information by strengthening what the speaker
really wants to utter the fact to the listener. In this research the dominant mood types is
declarative positive (40%), and for speech function is statement (80%).