English for Inviting Someone. How to request someone‟s presence, starting the special event and setting time and place. It is used to invite someone to do something what someone will do, depend on the invitation. Decide when each of these expressions would be appropriate and what you might say before and after. Think of some possible situations in which you would use each expression. ` Invitations often begin: “Would you like…? The functions of English for inviting someone can be shown the example below:
English for Inviting Someone. Inviting someone is one of the language functions that is used by people to invite other people. This expression is also used by art shop attendants to invite the tourist to visit their art shops. Based on the data, there were many expressions that are used to invite the tourists. Those expressions could be seen in the conversations bellow: Conversation 1: (Art shop attendant 6) Art shop attendant : Hello, looking- looking darling, looking –looking mom. Tourist : Yeah. The underlined sentence above “looking-looking darling, looking-looking mom” has the idea of “please have a look” and it belongs to inviting function. The underlined words above show that the art shop attendant was inviting the tourist to come to their shops. The purpose of this expression is to invite the tourist to buy goods in his art shop. The art shop attendant expressed this function in an informal expression. In the theory, the expressions that usually used are: “Would you like to have a look?” .From the conversation above it can be seen that the tourist just saying “yeah” but she was not interested and she went away. Conversation 2: (Art shop attendant 8) Art shop attendant : Come inside darling, come inside. Tourist : No, thank you. The underlined sentence in conversation 2 are also belongs to inviting function, it can be seen that the art shop attendant used the inviting someone expression. But the expression used by the art shop attendant in this conversation is an informal expression. This expression is different with the formal expression that was seen in the theory. Usually, in the theory the expression that usually used is: “Would you like to come inside?”. The purpose of this expression is to invite the tourist to buy goods in his art shop. But the tourist was not interested to come to the art shop. Conversation 3: (Art shop attendant 7) Art shop attendant : Come here please. Tourist : ….. (The tourist didn‟t say anything) The same thing happens in conversation 3. The underlined sentence above also belongs to inviting someone expression. The sentence is using informal language but still in the polite manner. The sentence “come here please” is an informal expression. If we compare with the theory, the expressions that usually used is: “Would you like to come here, please?”. Although this expression is informal but the tourist still understood what the art shop attendant meant. The art shop attendants used this expression when tourist walked in front of their art shop. The conv...
