A Discourse Comparative Analysis Of The Television Talk Show Programs In "Starface" And "Kevin Hour"

"Starface" and "Kevin Hour"are two television interview programs ofHongKong and mainland in recent years,whose positions are high culture.This thesismainly compare and analyze their difference from two aspects:topics and turns ofspeech,analysis of the causes of this difference.Provide a reference for thedevelopment of television programs at the same time and to reveal the general lawsof the session.The topics of "Starface" is moderate and profound, emphasis on the strivementand inspiration.The host controls of the topics moderately,promoting thedevelopments of the topics together with guests.The embedded pattern of takingturns of speech, pay attention to the use of concerned about the topics of logicalrelationship between the structure and semantics of convergence means, so that theintegration of program content, a fast paced discourse coherence.The topics of"Kevin Hour" mainly about emotional life,and the host controls the topics’developments strictly,the smooth developments of topics,thus the topics of cohesionshow jumping characteristics.The host and guests of "Starface" interaction turns frequently,guests activelyinvolved in the topics and have larger voice.The host of "Kevin Hour" controls theturns strictly and guide the topics,at the same time,guests intervent topics inactively,access mode to take a question and answer.In the discourse style,Xu Gehui’s discourse style is sincere and lively, thediscourse style of Cao Kefan is refined calm and sincere.The differences of social context and the media context in two areas is the maincause of the two programs’ discourse difference.