Study of the Pragmatic Function of Echo Questions in Teachers' Questioning in Chinese Language Classes

Abstract

Echo questioning, as a conversational phenomenon, occurs frequently and expresses many emotional attitudes. However, in terms of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, the research on the role of echoic questioning in teachers' questioning is insufficient and little attention has been paid to it. This paper takes the discourse in the classroom as the corpus, discusses the use of echo questions in the Chinese as a foreign language classroom from the perspective of the pragmatics of echo questions, takes the teacher's questioning as the focus of the analysis, and discusses the pragmatic function of echo questions in the teacher's questioning from the four aspects of rephrasing echo questions, explanatory echo questions, discourse gaps, and affective attitudes.