they contribute to the mental process of the characters selected. However, to accomplish the purpose of this research, exploring the omniscient narrators, the
researcher chooses the mood and modality system and the appraisals in addition to the transitivity system as the appropriate instruments.
1.2 Problem Limitation
The characters analyzed in this research are Mavis and Connie. Those characters have different interesting backgrounds, and the narrator mostly
explores their psychological conditions to narrate their stories. They are also dynamic, which means they change from the beginning to the end of the story.
Interestingly, they change in different ways that makes them comparable. The discussion is limited only in the point of view. It will not talk about the
plot or other aspects of narrative. The point of view itself is defined as from where, through which characters or narrators, the story is narrated. Then it is
specified on the reflector mode or when the narrator is omniscient through certain character. Since it discusses the omniscient, it covers mainly on the thought
presentations of the characters. The linguistic features employed in this research are the transitivity, the
mood and modality system, and the appraisals. Those systems are chosen because according to SFG, the omniscient narrator or the mental representation of
characters can be identified through the analysis of the transitivity system and the mood and modality system. Moreover, those systems will be suitable tools to
analyze how they experience the world and how they make judgments. Thus, this study focuses on the analysis of the linguistic features and their effects toward the
mental representation of the characters.
1.3 Problem Formulation
The questions to be answered in this study are in the following: 1. How do the patterns of the linguistic features develop Mavis’s and Connie’s
mental process? 2. How do the styles of their mental representations differ from each other?
1.4 Research Goals
This study will try to achieve two main goals where the first goal is to find out the patterns of the linguistic features that contribute to the development of the
omniscient narrators selected, Mavis and Connie. The use of linguistic features for certain purposes and how particular features are chosen to create effects are the
ground of stylistic study. Simpson 2004 states that in stylistics, the language is a mean to interpret a story since the various forms, patterns and levels of language
have functions that construct the story. Concerning with the linguistic features, this research will mostly deal with the SFG especially the transitivity system and
the mood and modality system. The second goal is exploring how the linguistic features can raise certain
effect and gives contribution to understand the different mental conditions of the characters. Language is an instrument for communication, to send messages for
various purposes. Leech and Short 2007 explain about the communication between the writers and the readers. The way the messages are used to reach the
goal can be called “the rhetoric of discourse”. Furthermore, in this case, in fictional world, the writers need to communicate with the readers. They need to
give information, so that “the fiction will be interpreted and evaluated in an appropriate way” Leech and Short, 2007: 206. In fictional world, the writers and
the readers involve in the discourse situation where the writers can speak to the readers through the narration. Here, the writers can choose to use particular type
of narrators with certain features to narrate the story and communicate their messages.
1.5 Benefits of the Study
