Comparing and Contrasting Expressions of Asking Opinions

Rika Mutiara, Prayogo Hadi Sulistio, Nuryansyah Adijaya, Ratnawati Susanto

2018

Abstract

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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mutiara R., Hadi Sulistio P., Adijaya N. and Susanto R. (2018). Comparing and Contrasting Expressions of Asking Opinions.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 2858-2864. DOI: 10.5220/0009953728582864

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Rika Mutiara and Prayogo Hadi Sulistio and Nuryansyah Adijaya and Ratnawati Susanto},
title={Comparing and Contrasting Expressions of Asking Opinions},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={2858-2864},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009953728582864},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Comparing and Contrasting Expressions of Asking Opinions
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Mutiara R.
AU - Hadi Sulistio P.
AU - Adijaya N.
AU - Susanto R.
PY - 2018
SP - 2858
EP - 2864
DO - 10.5220/0009953728582864