The Second Season Of The Voice Of China Under Narratology

The Voice of China is a popular TV variety show, which caught audiences’ attention since the first time show and drew researchers’attention to find out why it was popular and what the TV show’s influences were. This article, with5W model as the basic framework, chooses to analysis the TV show from the internal perspective with Narratology theory and methods, different from many articles from the external perspective. Comparative research between the second season and the first season was also part of the paper. This thesis aims to solve the research question, who narrates what in which channel to whom with what effect in the second season of the Voice of China, by analyzing the surface structure and the deep structure, discussing contradictions and metaphors, finding out the logic of program narrative, and probing into suspense setting in the program with simplified formula. Meanwhile, it also provides a new perspective and a new method for journalism and communication research.The study has reached some conclusions:(1)The second season of The Voice of China is created by a group author, and narrated by a compound narrator. The implied author is from the recipient’s imagination and creation.(2)On the surface, the second season of The Voice of China just tells a simple story:elect the champion singer of2013. But the show enriches the story in various complex sequences, which also tells how complex the TV show is.(3) Suspense plays a central role in the story, but fate and contradiction are the essential elements of the suspense. Suspense setting is different between the first season and the second one. In the first season, one suspense is just in one event, but in the second season, more than one suspense may appear in one event.(4) The TV show is easy to understand, but the recipients still need their imagination to reach completion because of the reconstruction of time and space in the show. (5)The second season and the first season are similar to each other in many ways. Both are simple and easy stories with outstanding suspense narrative. To save the TV show from future weakness, it may rely on successful suspense narrative in various contradictions.Due to the limitations of personal ability, the thesis may leave room for improvement.