A Discourse Analysis Of The Television Talk Show Programs In "Yanglan One On One"and "Kang And Xi Come"

“Yanglan One on One” and “Kang and Xi Come” are two TV talk show programs that arethe most popular programs in the mainland and Taiwan since the TV talk show program hasopened. These two programs have many differences. The thesis trys to compare them from topics,turns of speech and the styles of the hosts’ speech, then find out the differences of the languagemodels, it will be good for the future of the TV talk show program.The topic of “Yanglan One on One” is about many aspects, and it is very professional, itemphasis on the wisdom and thinking. The host controls the topic strictly, she often uses thesmooth developments of topics, they prepare and make the program perfectly, so it is very entire.“Kang and Xi Come” is more about the privacy and relationship of the stars, the hosts don’tcontrol the topics, the embedded pattern of talking turns of speech make the program loosely anddisorderly, so the topics of cohesion jump strongly.In “Yanglan One on One”, the host dominates the turns of speech, she is the leader of theprogram, the guests have little chance to interrupt or to be leader in the speech, however, in“Kang and Xi Come”, the hosts and the guests push the topics together, the hosts don’t controlthe turn of the speech so tightly, most of time the guests could interrupt the speech.About the styles of the hosts, Yanglan’s style is wise and connotative, and other two hostsare alive and humorous.The socio-cultural context and target context are the two main reasons of the differencesof the styles about the hosts.