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TV Talk Show Host Language Strategy

Posted on:2012-06-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2218330338468393Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Famous German sociologist Ulrich Beck once defined modern society as the risk society, that is ,a contradictory and heavy risky society. In the risk society, people increasingly need the mass media of communication features, since communication is necessary to resolve conflicts and risk .Interview programs is the main platform for the mass media to exchange. Based on the text of the China Central Television talk show "Dialogue", we found that the biggest difference between the daily interview programs and talk lies in the structural integrity and unique of interview programs, and, producing a complete meaning through the complete structure. However, we need to think about what kind of language strategies that hosts use to build a complete and unique structure?Therefore, by analyzing a random sample of million words "Dialogue" column text corpus from 2003 to 2010 ,this paper tends to explore the language strategies which the host have adopted in various stages of proposing topic,promoting topic and topic end,using conversational structure and the generalized rhetoric as the theoretical basis.Through text analysis, we found that in the proposed topic, the show host declared by words, by setting questions to bring the audience interest, by association, imagination and metaphor and other figures of speech to elicit subject; in advancing the topic, in addition to using words, euphemism Language, contrast, suspense and other words and strategies of speech, the moderator also use complex sentences, the guest of honor role reversal, and use props to carry out the game ,to advance topics through a variety of ways; the end of the topic, the moderator also intentionally or unintentionally, use reference, parallelism of these rhetorical strategies, and be summarized. We also found that when building discourse structure, the host pursues the complete discourse structure for full significance of the show. but because of over-emphasis on structural integrity and uniqueness, there are also hardening and simplification and lack of human color and other defects in the language use. We hope that through the study of the "Dialogue" section of the case to explore the language strategy of the host in a specific program form, so that will help other scholars to study the host language strategy from different angles and in more diverse perspectives, so talk shows can achieve its function as mass media of communication better.
Keywords/Search Tags:talk show, dialogue, host, language strateg
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