AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY AND PERLOCUTIONARY ACTS ON YOUTUBE VIDEOS EMPLOYED BY NIANA GUERRERO

This research is aimed at finding the illocutionary act types performed by Niana
Guerrero and the perlocutionary effects performed by the hearers in Niana
Guerrero’s YouTube videos. This research employed a qualitative descriptive
research. The subjects of this research were two of the most viewed videos
uploaded from May 2019-August 2019. The illocutionary act data performed by
Niana Guerrero were classified using an instrument following Searle’s theory and
the perlocutionary effect data performed by the hearers were classified using an
instrument following Gu’s theory. The first finding showed four illocutionary act
types performed by Niana Guerrero namely representative, directive, commisive,
and expressive. The second finding showed all that perlocutionary effect types
performed by the hearers namely motor reflexive response, emotive response,
cognitive response, negative response, verbal response, and physical response. By
performing four types of illocutionary acts, Niana may have various ways express
her intentions to the hearers. Meanwhile, the hearers may have various ways to
fulfill Niana’s intention by performing six types of perlocutionary effects. These
speech acts create the communicative effects that cause Niana has many
subscribers and viewers in her YouTube channel by establishing highly
interactive, joyful, and interesting situation.
Keywords: illocutionary act, perlocutionary act, video, YouTube