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Echo - Questions as a Pragmatic Type of Interrogative Sentences and a Special Type of Communication

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This article deals with researching of echo-questions. It is admitted that echo-questions are a pragmatic type of interrogative sentences where they can repeat a part or all of what someone has asked. And they are also a special form of interrogative statements. The purpose of the article is to point out the importance of the usage them in the dialogue speech. It is admitted that echo-questions are used in dialogue speech but they can be used in monologue speech too. Speakers usually repeat a question because they didn't fully understand or hear what was said, or they simply can't believe someone would ask such a question or express feelings and emotions where intonation allows us to clarify what we are thinking. Echo-questions as an interrogative sentence can have different interrogative form: general, special, alternative, disjunctive. It is noted that they can repeat questions of different forms but they are not able to create them and it differs them from interrogative sentences. But echo-questions can transform the question which is repeated by them. The transformations depend on their pragmatic intention. It is important to note that echo-questions can express different emotions and feelings of the speaker which is not possible for interrogative sentences which can only be used for request. It is admitted that echo-questions can repeat the previous statement which can be not only interrogative sentences but affirmative and negative ones partially and fully. It depends on the intention which is followed by the speaker. Echo-questions as linguistic phenomena are very important for communication because speakers can understand each other better. Researching of the pragmatic peculiarities of echo-questions is important for specification of dialogue speech.

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 11, Issue 6)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijll.20231106.14
Page(s) 211-214
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Keywords

Echo-Questions, Interrogative Sentences, Interrogative Statements, Dialogue Speech, Pragmatic Intention

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    Antonina Ivanivna A. Echo - Questions as a Pragmatic Type of Interrogative Sentences and a Special Type of Communication. Int J Lang Linguist. 2023;11(6):211-214. doi: 10.11648/j.ijll.20231106.14

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