Narratological Analysis Of The TV Column:Voice

With the popularity of television,watching television programs has already become a crucial part of life of Chinese people.However,in recent decade,blind pursuit of high ratings and economic interests drives the phenomenon of “Pan-entertainment” in Chinese television programs.Under such background,China's first Television Open Course Program Voice started in August,2012 via Channel 1 of CCTV.It can be inferred that Voice has formed its own unique characteristic of originally-produced programs in China.In particular,the narrative of Voice is of great significance in academic research.The paper focuses on Voice,and analyzes its narrative features by methodologies such as Literature Review,Case Study,Inductive Research,and Text Analysis.This paper consists of three basic parts,and the first four chapters is the main body.The first part is the introduction part,which firstly introduces the background and significance of the study on this specific topic,secondly introduces current theoretical research achievements,including the research achievements on narratology,both at home and abroad,and on Voice,and thirdly introduces research methodology of this paper.The first chapter,Narrator of Voice,specifically discusses the composing features of host,guests,representatives and audiences,as well as their linguistic features.This program chooses speakers who meet the standard of “example of the youth”,and exert positive educational influence on the youth by the vivid speech delivered by the speakers.The wise and humorous hosting-manner of the host,Sa Beinig also contributes to the narrative.The supplement of audiences increases the interactivity as well.The second chapter stresses the narrative theme of Voice,especially on the classification and features of the theme.The third chapter focuses on the narrative structure of Voice.The paper analyzes the ingenious arrangement of different components of this program and highlights the structural features.The fourth chapter transfers to the narrative function of non-linguistic symbols,particularly analyzes the narrative function of stage and music.The third part is the concluding part,which summarizes the restrictions on narrative of Voice and follows by some feasible advice.This paper studies the narrative factors of Voice,and discusses the narrative features and experience of this program and it will give a helping hand to the development oftelevision lecture program of China and to the prosperity of television program of China.