| Conflict talk is a common but complicated social and cultural phenomenon,which constantly occurs in our daily life. In the narrow sense, conflict talk refers to a type of speech act, such as disagreeing, opposing and arguing. But in the broad sense,conflict talk refers to a type of interaction in which antagonistic acts are exchanged between two or more parties due to their differences in opinions, interests or objectives.Conflict talk is inevitable in our life, which has both positive and negative effects.But in the great majority of cases, it causes the latter. Therefore, based on the data collected from the 76-part TV serial The Story of ZhenHuan. This study intends to discover the formats of initiating, escalating, and terminating conflict talk so as to help people get to know it better. Because the turn-taking is the basic unit of a conversation. So with the help of turn-taking theory, writer plans to analyze the dynamic process of conflict talk, making quantitative and qualitative summary of each stage. Besides that, the analysis of conflict talk in the TV serial will not only help readers have a better understanding of conflict talk in other literary works, but also he1 p the creators of TV serial and other forms of arts understand conflict talk theoretically and thus create better works for readers. |
