English for Giving Information. This expression is used to give a response needed by a speaker or questioner on many types of maters. It depends on what the question all about. The linguistic items are more general, it covers any types of questions, such as who, where, how, what, when, and others using auxiliary verb. In providing information, the person being asked often delay to give the information, as he/ she needs to think of the answer of the question. According to Xxx Xxxxx, there are some necessary techniques which can be applied by the speaker to delay the information which the person needs. Those techniques expressions are:
English for Giving Information. Giving information is used to give information about something to other people. We have to give the complete information to the speaker to make them satisfied to our explanation. Based on the data, there were some expressions as giving information function that were used by art shop attendants. The art shop attendants usually used this expression to give information about the price. Sometimes, there were bargaining processes in this situation when the tourist didn‟t agree about the price of the goods that they wanted. Then the art shop attendants gave the second price that made the tourists interested with it. Most of art shop attendants expressed this function in informal expression. Conversation 1: (Art shop attendant 5) Art shop attendant : Yes, excuse me. Any looking something please? Tourist : No, I‟m just looking, Thank you. Art shop attendant : Shirt? Dress maybe? Don‟t say no no, say yes yes. Good price. Tourist : How much this? Art shop attendant : How many pieces you want darling? Tourist : I don‟t know. Art shop attendant : Two or three? Tourist : Depends how much. Art shop attendant : I give you three dollars each. Tourist : Three dollars? Art shop attendant : If you take couple, if you take one I give you five dollars. Tourist : No, no. The underlined sentences above belong to giving information function. The art shop attendant gave the information about the price. The art shop attendant gave the price of hairgrip that the tourist wanted to buy. In the conversation above the art shop attendant gave some choices to the tourist. If the tourist wants to buy two pieces of hairgrips, she needs to pay three dollars for each hairgrip, but if the tourist only wants to buy one hairgrip, she need to pay five dollars for one hairgrip. In this case the tourist didn‟t agree about the price. The expression used by the art shop attendant in this conversation is an informal expression. And finally the tourist refused to pay the offered price that the art shop attendant had given. She expressed this expression in a polite manner. Conversation 2: (Art shop attendant 9) Tourist :How much is it? Art shop attendant :How many pieces do you want? Depend you take. If you take couple, I give you good price. For two I give you one fifty. You can have bargain. How much do you want? Tourist :Eighty for two. Art shop attendant :Eighty too low darling Tourist :Ninety? Art shop attendant :Good for you, good for me, ya one twenty. Because this good materials mom. Tourist :Ok...
