Semantic Emotion of Covid-19 News After Introductory Vaccine On Twitter

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 are to investigate the kinds of emotion used in Covid-19 news in twitter, how the semantic emotions realized in Covid-19 news, and why the semantic emotions realized in Covid-19 news as the ways they are. 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 3 of basic modes of emotions in covid-19 news on twitter account of CNN Breaking News, namely: happiness, sadness and fear. While, anger and disgust were not found. Emotions were realized in covid-19 news, namely: basic emotion, emotional relations, caused emotions, causative, emotional goals, and complex emotions. It is found that the reasons of realizing emotions in covid-19 news were to be communicative function within an individual’s cognitive architecture and to be communicative function among members of the same and other species. 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.