PHÓ TỪ PHẢN VẤN TIẾNG TRUNG TRONG TƯƠNG QUAN VỚI TIẾNG VIỆT - TRƯỜNG HỢP 难道 VÀ 莫非

Abstract

Rhetorical adverbs in Chinese are diverse and commonly used in rhetorical questions. They function to highlight affirmative and negative meanings, to question, and to express a rebuttal or conjectural attitude through interrogative forms, which do not require an answer or seek information in the way that interrogative sentences do. The primary purpose of those rhetorical adverbs is to emphasize the speaker’s viewpoint and to draw the listener’s attention to reflect on the core information being communicated. The article employs research methods and techniques such as statistics, analysis, comparison, and contrast to examine Chinese rhetorical adverbs 难道 and 莫非 in relation to Vietnamese equivalent expressions lẽ nào, hay là to clarify the semantic and pragmatic characteristics, their patterns of use, as well as the similarities and differences between these expressions in the two languages.