Speech acts are an important part of pragmatics. Speech acts have various forms in order to convey certain intentions which are divided into three types, namely speech acts 1) locus 2) illocution and 3) perlocution. Illocutionary speech acts were chosen to be studied in this study. The choice of illocutionary speech acts isintended to find outthe hidden meanings inthe fairy tale Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot. Illocutionary speech acts are actions and utterances that are carried out with a specific purpose, function and purpose. The theory used is speech acts according to Yule. Yule's theory divides illocutionary speech acts into five types of functions, namely assertive, directive, expressive, commissive, and declarative. This research is included indescriptive qualitative research. This research data in the form of sentences contained in the fairy tale Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot. From the results of the data as many as 98 sentences, found 12 sentences which are types of illocutionary speech acts in the fairy tale Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot. The twelve data found consisted of three sentences of assertive illocutionary types, three sentences of directive illocutionary types, two sentences of expressive illocution types, two sentences of commissive illocution types, and two sentences of declarative illocution types.
Keywords: Pragmatics, Illocutionary Speech Act, fairy tale
