Mood structures and their functions to reveal white’s dominance: A critical discourse analysis in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing

This discourse study aims to analyze the structure and function of modes in speech characters The Grass is Singing concerning white domination over black people. a qualitative with critical analysis approach. findings conform Fairclough’s theory (1989) that mood structure, whether declarative, interrogative, or imperative, can show speaker's dominance power. In declarative mode, speaker person giving information tends be higher position than interlocutor. interrogative imperative modes, who asks for both action from interlocutor generally more dominant. These reveal people consider their group superior even though within itself social class division exists where those are successful will powerful struggling economically.