English for Greeting. Greeting is the act or word expression which is said for the first time to great someone or other people, although they don‟t know each other. The greeting expression is important because that expression can open or create a good following communication of one person with another person. This expression can also be used to begin a conversation, or it may be used to open a discussion. This expression is used to express their feelings, to respect others. If we concern with the situation when the conversation happened, greeting can be formal and informal. It depends on who the speakers and hearers are. Greeting expressions were the very common expressions that art shop attendant used. This expression was used by them to start their conversation with the tourists or when they greeted or welcomed the tourists to sell things or art works to the tourists. Conversation 1: (Art shop attendant 6) Art shop attendant : Hello, Sir. Good sun glasses. Tourist : No. The underlined word in the conversation above shows that the art shop attendants used greeting function. The art shop attendants used this function when they met the tourist walking in front of their art shop. Then with smiling face he greeted the tourist. Seen from the word used, this expression belongs to formal expression because he used a formal greeting “Hello” and followed by “Sir” word to greet the tourist in a polite and friendly manner .Most of the art shop attendants in Kuta Beach Street used these words to greet the tourists and they could say it fluently. Conversation 2: (Art shop attendant 9) Art shop attendant : How are you? Come here please. I got something, very cheap. Tourist : No, no. The data above is a short conversation between art shop attendant and tourist. The underlined words are “How are you?”. I classified it as greeting function, because this sentence was said at the beginning of the conversation and it was used to open the conversation. The art shop attendant used this expression when tourist was walking in front of their art shop. The art shop attendant expressed this function in formal expression and grammatically correct. But the tourist was not interested in it.. He just said “no, no” and walked away. Conversation 3: (Art shop attendant 4) Art shop attendant :Evening, yea have a look, watches? Tourist : No I‟m just looking. If we look at the conversation above the underlined word belongs to greeting function. The art shop attendant used an informal expression and this expressio...
