NIHARIKA’S SUICIDE LETTER ANALYSIS USING FORENSIC STYLISTICS

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Suicide letter was one of the source when doing analysis of forensic stylistics. This research was using suicide letter written by Niharika for her parents to express her emotions and reasoning as the researchers source to reveal the linguistics features, purpose and interpretation of the suicide letter by using descriptive qualitative as the research method while applied Prokofyeva’s theories of linguistics features and letter’s interpretation. The suicide letter could be found in online website India Today News. This research aims to analyze forensic stylistic approach from suicide letter written by Niharika by reveal it linguistics features, purpose and interpretation of the letter. Reseachers found clear reasoning, expressing emotion, and grammatical error and purpose of the letter as the gap from the previous study. The finding of this research might help the future research regarding of forensic stylistics analysis of suicide letter.