| This study was conducted to analyze illocutionary acts performed by Youtubers in two popular Youtube categories: People & Blogs and How-to & Style. It follows the concept of Searle’s speech acts theory (1969). Three videos from each category were selected as the research data. A total of 545 speech act utterances were identified using a typology proposed by Harnish and Bach (1979) and Bach (2006). The typology consists of speech act types: assertives, directives, commissives, and expressives. The aims of this study are, first, to seek the types of illocutionary speech acts used by youtubers in two different categories: How-to & Style, and People & Blogs category. Second, to identify the functions of each type of illocutionary acts found in How-to & Style, and People & Blogs category. Third, to investigate the differences between the use of illocutionary speech act types in How-to & Style and that in People & Blogs category. The findings reveal that all types of illocutionary acts occurred in both categories: People & Blogs and How-to & Style with varied percentage of occurrence. From all types of illocutionary speech acts, both categories have the most tendency to use assertives. On the one hand, the least-frequently used type of illocutionary speech act was indicated to fall under commisives. In comparison, People & Blogs category employed to have lower percentages in 3 out of 4 types of illocutionary acts. First, in assertives, People & Blogs has lower percentage with 48% compared to How-to & Style (54%). Second, in commissives, People & Blogs has lower percentage with 8% compared to How-to & Style (9%). Third, in expressives, People & Blogs category has lower percentage with 2% compared to How-to & Style category (8%). Meanwhile, the use of illocutionary acts was differently found in 1 out of 4 types of illocutionary speech acts: directives. People and Blogs category employed higher percentage (33%) than in How-to and Style category (16%). |