Comparing and Contrasting Expressions of Asking Opinions
Description:
This study aims at comparing and contrasting expressions of asking opinions in the textbook and corpora. It, moreover, gives a suggestion which expressions could be given for English learning purposes based on the findings in the corpora. Corpus assisted discourse study was used as the method. The corpora used in this study are COCA, BYU-BNC, SOAP, and Strathy. The frequency, positions, and characteristics of dialogues in which the expressions occur are the focus of the investigation. Some expressions for instance what is your point of view about … never occur in the corpora. The textbook only presented the expressions to occur in initial positions. However, other positions also can be found in the corpora. Based on the corpus finding, the interlocutors tend to find more information related to the topics, extend the topics, and make comparison when they ask opinions. Other expressions such as do you have an opinion … and in your opinion … were possible to use based on the findings in the corpora
Author:
- Rika Mutiara
- Prayogo Hadi Sulistio
Source:
International Conference on Recent Innovation 2018
