The Language Study On Television Talk Show Hosts From The View Of Communication Theories

In recent years, with the great success of those well-known programs such as"Art Life","A Date with Lu Yu"and so on, TV talk show program began to develop vigorously as a newform. In the talk show programs, the hosts communicate and exchange with the audience withthe vocal speech as a medium. Both the intention of the media and the purpose of the programwill be eventually conveyed through the vocal speech. The purpose of the talk show programis also achieved by setting questions to control the development of the program.A host's vocal speech not only takes the purpose and task of mass communication, butalso the function and nature of interpersonal communication. Because of the special nature ofthis kind of verbal communication, the host has become the most direct and activeintermediary who can mostly promote spiritual exchange and soul touch between thecommunications media and the interviewee in imitated situations.The quality of a hostdirectly impacts or even determines the quality of the program. Those famous hosts arealways closely related with those well-known programs. While the speech quality of a host isundoubtedly the most important of all of his or her qualities. A host always undertakes severaltasks through speech, such as guiding the interviewee's mood, controlling the progress andcontent of their conversation. He or she also has to transfer the effective information to theaudience, more important is that there may be some unexpected accidents happen during theconversation; this requires the host to be calm and transit to the next step naturally. Therefore,a host should not only possess extensive knowledge, the ability to correctly grasp thepsychological changes, but also strong abilities to adapt and control. At the same time, the host should be able to apply the abilities into the entire conversation through his or her speech.Therefore, the strategies and ways of talking are particularly important to a host.This article will talk about talk shows from the angle of communication study, throughthe analysis of exchange process of several typical programs, the article analyses theprofessional characteristic of talk show hosts in simple terms, and analyses the speechstructure of talk show programs, lists out the role of hosts'speech in various interpersonalcommunications,in this way, this article explores the speech strategies of the talk show hosts,which has certain importance to improve the program quality and enhance the communicationeffects.