LINGUISTIK TERAPAN
Vol 18, No 3 (2021)

FACTORS OF SEMANTIC EMOTION OF COVID-19 NEWS AFTER INTRODUCTORY VACCINE ON TWITTER

Friska . Pakpahan (English Applied Linguistics Study Program Postgraduate Program–Universitas Negeri Medan)
Anni Holila Pulungan (English Applied Linguistics Study Program Postgraduate Program–Universitas Negeri Medan)
Meisuri . Meisuri (English Applied Linguistics Study Program Postgraduate Program–Universitas Negeri Medan)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jan 2022

Abstract

This study is based on the fact that the readers get words emotion after reading the tweets of covid-19 news. Various emotions found on the tweets of twitter relate to the Covid-19 news. Some of them make the readers being fear or sad of this pandemic. This study deals with semantic emotion of covid-19 news in twitter account of CNN Breaking News. The objectives of the study is to investigate how the semantic emotions realized in Covid-19 news. The study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative. The data of this study were words from tweets which contain semantic emotion of Covid-19 news in twitter. The sources of data in this study were Covid-19 news in twitter, after vaccine Covid-19 distributed since beginning of January 2021. It was found that emotions were realized in covid-19 news, namely: basic emotion, emotional relations, caused emotions, causative, emotional goals, and complex emotions. Contrary with the expectation, happiness was the dominant emotion found in covid-19 news on twitter. Happiness is an emotion to show pleasant, while covid-19 in unpleasant situation. But in this research, it was found that happiness had a high frequency.Keywords: Semantic Emotion, Covid-19, Twitter, Vaccine

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Journal Info

Abbrev

LTBI

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Jurnal Linguistik Terapan is a peer-reviewed journal that supports research in the field of Linguistics, Literature, and English Language Teaching. This Journal aims to publish academic research on applied linguistics relevant to actual issues and to be a publication platform for original research ...