The analysis of illocutionary acts in “the trials of apollo, book 2: the dark prophecy

This research was discusses about Illocutionary act in The Trials of Apollo, book 2: The Dark Prophecy. Illocutionary act or act in saying something is used not only in oral communication, but also in writing such as novel. By studying illocutionary act, the listener (writer) would get the message from the speaker (writer), in communication people would understand the aim meaning of the utterance. So, the objective of the research is to describe illocutionary act and to find the functions of illocutionary act in the novel The Trials of Apollo book 2 The Dark Prophecy for English Language Teaching. The methodology used in this research was descriptive qualitative research. It means that the method is intended to make a systematic and accurate description concerning the fact and the feature of research data. The data collection is done by reading The Trials of Apollo novel, book 2 The Dark Prophecy and other books that related research. Data analysis is done by using content analysis that interpreting the findings and stating conclusions in the illocutionary acts in novel The Trials of Apollo, book 2 The Dark Prophecy. The result of the research can be concluded that the researcher found 125 utterances, there are 62 representatives, 11 expressive, 36 directives, 64 directives, 16 commissives. So, the researcher found representatives as a dominant one in the novel. The function of the result of this research could be authentic material by teachers or lecturers to teach speech act especially illocutionary act. With this method, this was not only to improve their understanding or knowledge about illocutionary acts, but also to improve their listening and speaking