Chinese Television Talk Show Narrative Research

Ten years ago, TV Talk Show achieved its prosperous developments in China as a new type of TV program. Ten years later, even though the famous TV Talk Shows are also confronted with great crisis because of the fierce competition both in media and multiform choices of audience. Under the modern noisy context, due to the similarity of contents and forms, TV Talk Show looks more conservative and one-sided. By force of needing of abundant texts, most of Talk Show programs have slipped into an occasional program of going after successful man, hot fashion topics. Behind those flowery performances, it isn't difficult to find their weakness and emptiness.Most of Chinese TV Talk Shows can be regarded as narrative "text". Even if they come as argumentum and disputation, they are also based on some stories. Therefore, from a new view, this paper, for the first time, will make a systematic study through the way of narrative theory, and the author will strive to grasp the characteristics and the deficiencies of the present Chinese TV Talk Show. On the base of comprehending the condition of Chinese TV Talk Show, the author will not only make a comprehensive pectination from the aesthetic characteristic, subject, angle of view, distance, mode, and intertextuality tactics of this narrative form, but also avoid the limit of narratology, more further, melt with ideas of narratologies emphasizing talking context, audience, reliability of discourse. This paper will point out the reasons of causing kinds of deficiencies in Chinese TV Talk Show, such as, the difference between the author and the implied author, the narrator's limitation and the audience consciousness , the improper use of angle of view, distance, mode, and intertextuality tactics. If we want to improve the art charm of TV Talk Show, we will not only improve on the narrative strategies mentioned above, but also need to grasp the narrative soul which embeds in the real audience's thought and feeling.