Emotion Verbs Of “Hate” in Hate Speech Through Social Media

Abstract

Every citizen has a right to express his opinion even in social media. However, some people use social media to express negative meaning, including hate speech. Hate speech may cause hatred and attack both individual and community honor. The expression of hate is associated with the emotion verbs semantically in linguistics. Dealing with linguistics, there are some problems to conduct the research. The purpose is to investigate the emotion verbs of hate used semantically. In this case, emotion verbs of hate used in people’s speech through social media which provocate publics, insult each other, mutually hostile, harm and destroy the nation and the state itself.. The method is descriptive to clarify semantically a case study of emotion verbs found in people’s speech. The data taken from the social media such as Facebook and Instagram. The results found there are some responses of using emotion verbs of hate. Hate itself may refer to angry, annoyed, disguisted, etc. By the research, it can be concluded that emotion verbs of hate are the term of anger which might refer to violent, raging, irritated, upset, disturbed, offend, and hostile.