Abstract:
Semantics as the study of meaning stands at the very center of the linguistic quest
to understand the nature of language and human language abilities. It is obvious
that semantics has an important role in understanding and comprehending a
language, especially for english. The aim of study is to elaborate the semantic both
connotative and denotative are used in the E-News about covid-19 outbreak, to
classified which the theme and rheme of textual function of discourse analysis in
E-News about covid-19 outbreak. This study used descriptive qualitative method
in analyzing the data. The data was taken from E-News namely Jakarta Post. The
script consisted of 3 pages were taken as the data. The data were 29 sentences.
The realization parts of textual function occured because the clauses have
grammatical and systematical reason. Its hope that the result of this study will be
useful to everyone who wants to study meaning.
