冲突话语：英语电视新闻访谈的综合性谈话分析-英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

Acknowledgements I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to my supervisor Associate Professor Chen Xianfu for the continuous inspiration, scholarly advice and strict guidance he gave me. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Associate Professor Ouyang Junlin for his insightful advice on my choice of topic. And also many thanks would be given to all teachers from the Foreign Languages College, especially Professor Yue Jinsheng, Associate Professor Cao Qiping, Pei Xuemei, Xie Yali, who once and for ever trust, encourage and inspire me. Special thanks are due to Mr. Xu Jiajin from Beijing Foreign Studies University, without whose unselfish help in finding and emailing me invaluable reference materials, I could not have completed the thesis. Conflict Talk: the Integrated Conversation Analysis of English TV News Interviews Abstract We live in a world of language, where talks can be found everywhere, and with the help of TV, even more patterns of talks come out. One of the popular TV programs of talks is the news interview, which is usually famous for its conflict talks. To interpret and appreciate such conflict talks, the conversation analysis, argumentation theory, media studies and social-historical factors are to be involved. As an attempt of interdisciplinary study, this thesis is to comprehend the recognition, construction, features, functions and contributing factors of conflict talks in English TV news interviews. Hardtalk is BBC’s most-watched news interview program. The thesis particularly analyzes an interview of this program, chiefly the conflict talks between the combative interviewer Tim Sebastian and the famed linguist Noam Chomsky. In this thesis, careful conversation analysis, especially the study of turn-taking, adjacency pairs and preference organization systems are carried out. According to the argumentation theory, in comparison with the regular stages of argument including the initiating, maintaining and escalating, and terminating, the re