| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-18页 |
| 1.1 Research Motivation | 第12-13页 |
| 1.2 Research Background and Limitations | 第13-15页 |
| 1.3 Research Objectives and Research Questions | 第15页 |
| 1.4 Research Methodology and Data Collection | 第15-16页 |
| 1.5 Significance of the Study | 第16页 |
| 1.6 Organization of the Study | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-26页 |
| 2.1 Previous Studies on the Syntactic Features of Echo Questions in Chinese | 第18-21页 |
| 2.2 Previous Studies on the Semantic and Pragmatic Functions of Echo Questions inChinese | 第21-23页 |
| 2.3 Previous Theoretical Explanation to Echo Questions in Chinese | 第23-24页 |
| 2.4 Comments on the Previous Studies of Echo Questions in Chinese | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第26-38页 |
| 3.1 What is Dialogic Syntax? | 第27-28页 |
| 3.2 Origins of Dialogic Syntax | 第28-30页 |
| 3.2.1 Bakhtin’s Dialogic Theory | 第28-29页 |
| 3.2.2 Parallelism by Jakobson | 第29页 |
| 3.2.3 Discourse Analysis of Harris | 第29-30页 |
| 3.3 Basic Concepts of Dialogic Syntax | 第30-34页 |
| 3.3.1 Parallelism | 第30-31页 |
| 3.3.2 Resonance | 第31页 |
| 3.3.3 Resonance Resources | 第31-33页 |
| 3.3.4 The Concept of Diagraph | 第33-34页 |
| 3.4 Differences of Linear Syntax and Dialogic Syntax | 第34-36页 |
| 3.5 Summary | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter Four Description of Echo Questions | 第38-56页 |
| 4.1 What is Echo Questions? | 第38-39页 |
| 4.2 Syntactic Features of Echo Questions | 第39-49页 |
| 4.2.1 Paralleling with the Prior Utterance | 第40-43页 |
| 4.2.2 Different types of Echo Questions | 第43-47页 |
| 4.2.2.1 Full Echo Questions | 第43-44页 |
| 4.2.2.2 Partial Echo Questions | 第44-46页 |
| 4.2.2.3 Wh-echo Questions | 第46-47页 |
| 4.2.3 Expressive Ways of Echo Questions | 第47-49页 |
| 4.3 Semantic and Pragmatic Functions of Echo Questions | 第49-56页 |
| 4.3.1 Asking for Verification | 第49-51页 |
| 4.3.2 Demanding for Clarification | 第51-52页 |
| 4.3.3 Other Semantic and Pragmatic Functions of Echo questions in Chinese | 第52-56页 |
| Chapter Five Cognitive Explanation to Echo Questions in Chinese Dialog | 第56-88页 |
| 5.1 Cognitive Explanation to the Syntactic Features of Echo Questions in Chinese | 第57-74页 |
| 5.1.1 Syntactic Features of Wh-clause Echo Questions | 第60-67页 |
| 5.1.2 Syntactic Features of Wh-word Echo Questions | 第67-74页 |
| 5.2 Cognitive Explanation to the Semantic Features of Echo Questions in Chinese | 第74-84页 |
| 5.2.1 Semantic Features of Full Echo Questions | 第77-81页 |
| 5.2.2 Semantic Features of Word-echo Questions in Chinese | 第81-83页 |
| 5.2.3 Semantic Features of Phrase-echo Questions in Chinese | 第83-84页 |
| 5.3 Summary | 第84-88页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第88-92页 |
| 6.1 Summary of the Research | 第88-89页 |
| 6.2 Main Findings of the Study | 第89-90页 |
| 6.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research | 第90-92页 |
| Bibliography | 第92-96页 |
