<![CDATA[The rapid development of technology has a positive impact on the ease of communication between speakers and speech partners. Speech is not only directed by one person to 1 person, but one speech can be directed to a speech partner. One of the applications that is currently familiar is using social media. The social media used is WhatsApp. Students of SMP Negeri 5 Randudongkal often use WhatsApp status to convey an intention to other students. Based on the data on student WhatsApp statuses that researchers have collected, it turns out that there are perlocutions with various types such as: representative perlocutions, directive perlocutions, expressive perlocutions, commissive perlocutions, and declarative perlocutions. The purpose of this study was to analyze perlocutionary speech acts in the WhatsApp status of class VIIII students of SMP Negeri 5 Randudongkal in the 2024/2025 academic year. The research method used in this study uses a qualitative approach with a descriptive method, with data collection techniques that researchers use using observation, interviews, and documentation. The data population used was class VIII students with samples from classes VIII A to VIII E. The results of the study showed that in the students' WhatsApp status there were examples of perlocutionary acts with various types, including: 9 representative perlocutionary acts, 1 directive perlocutionary act, 14 expressive perlocutionary acts, 17 commissive perlocutionary acts, 1 declarative perlocutionary act. From these data, it can be concluded that the WhatsApp status of class VIII A to VIII E students is dominated by the type of commissive perlocutionary act. Commissive perlocutionary acts are speech acts that give the effect of doing what is stated or said by the speaker.]]>
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