Illocutionary Acts On Manchester United Instagram Post

This study aims to investigate type illocutionary acts in comments on the Manchester United Instagram post. This research was conducted using a descriptive qualitative method. after the data being collected, they were analyzed based on The theory Searle (1969), types of illocutionary act and function of illocutionary act by Leech (1985). The data in this study are all utterances spoken in written form by people who comment on Manchester United posts. The findings showed that there were 50types illocutionary acts found in Manchester United's Instagram comments, consisting of8 assertive, 8 directive ,27 expressive, 7 commissive, 0 declaration and 50 function illocutionary act namely 9 collaborative function, 9 competitive, 23 convivial, 9 conflictive for the results. The data were described in the table form to show the percentage of the total amount of data. The discussion was presented in written form by presenting each type of illocutionary act and their function.