The Gender Differences Of The Turn-taking Strategies Adopted By The Hosts On The TV Talk Show

With the development of society, great changes have taken place in the social status, social division of labor and the social value of man and woman, the study of gender language also further expanded. But at present, domestic linguistic mostly stay on the level of static study of gender differences of language or promote foreign theories, the dynamic study is not enough. In addition, in recent years, electronic media has developed rapidly and provides more better way for human communication, TV talk show is one of the fast-growing and mature ways. So, this article tries to go deeply into the gender differences of the turn-taking strategies adopted by the hosts on the TV talk show and tries to display the results and reasons of the study completely. This research is expected to be propitious to explore the differences of language-using strategies caused by gender differences further. This article aims to help people find a more effective and harmonious way of language communication.This paper refers to massive Chinese and foreign literature and the research of predecessors’ achievements are discussed in details. The relevant content of turn and turn-taking rules created by Sacks provides theoretical support for this paper. Domestic scholars such as Liu Hong, He Zhaoxiong and Kuang XiaoRong put forward some concepts such as "turn" "semi-turn and non-turn" and "interruption", which provide a standard or reference for the theoretical construction. The gender linguistics research of Sun Rujian provides way to the analysis of the causes of gender differences. In addition, this paper also puts forward some cresting ideas, such as the definition of "interruption" and the concept of turn-maintaining strategy.The gender differences of the turn-taking strategies adopted by the hosts on the TV talk show are studied intensively in this paper. This research is carried on from static study and dynamic research respectively, which are the main parts of this paper. The static analysis introduces the results and reasons of the study on the whole, for example, a hostess interrupt the guest’s turn in higher proportion and this phenomenon can be explained by female higher and higher social status and social value. The dynamic analysis includes six aspects, namely, the turn-taking strategies and the reasons analysis when the male host interview male and female guests, when hostess interview male and female guests, when male host and hostess interview the same male guest separately, when male host and hostess interview the same female guest separately, and when male host and hostess interview the guests of their same sex separately, when male host and hostess interview the guests of different gender with them separately. All the situation are included. The conclusions of dynamic analysis and static analysis are sort of in common, but there are also something needing to be completed. This shows that the differences of language using between men and women should be considered dynamically.