A Pragmatic Study On Hosts' Discourse In "Day Day Up"

This paper focuses on the hosts' discourse of the famous Hunan satellite TV entertainment talk show—Day Day Up. With the related theory of pragmatics, the author analyzes the role location, the conversational structure, the conversational implication and the pragmatic values systematically. Ultimately, the pragmatic rules of the hosts' discourse in the show are concluded.The content of the introduction consists of the significance of the topic, research review, related theories and research methods. In the first chapter, this paper analyzes the host group of the show. From the host group structure, personal positioning in the group, discourse roles and so on, the author discovers the needed role positioning of the host and the transformation of discourse roles. The second chapter mainly analyzes the conversation structure from the overall as well as the local structure(namely the beginning of the conversation, the end of the conversation, the turn and the repartee structure) and obtains the corresponding conclusions. The third chapter analyzes the conversational implication from the principles of violation of the cooperation and concludes the pragmatic functions of the discourse to help the host use discourse expressing masterly someday. By analyzing the whole paper, a summary of the pragmatic value and some constructive suggestions are given in the fourth chapter.In general, this paper analyzes the discourse of the host group of TV show, which can be used as a criterion to guide the practice of the host while enriching the theory of pragmatics. Combined with the results of previous results and existing programs corpora, the author tries to put forward new ideas, sum up the new methods, innovate the forms as well as the content standing on the shoulders of predecessors. Binding with the personal practice to give some suggestions on the solution of specific issues is a major innovation of this paper. The value of this paper: first of all, this paperapplies pragmatic theories to analyze television program hosts' discourse, enrich the pragmatics research in the field of radio and television language; secondly, this paper provides theoretical basis for the hosts' discourse implementation of "Day Day Up",host to host group can benefit. Furthermore, pragmatic values this paper summarized has a very important significance to the further development of pragmatics.