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Volume 6, Issue 7
Conversational Analysis of TV Talk: A Case Study of The Pursued Life
- Vol. 6, Issue 7, Pages: 49-56(2022)
DOI:10.47297/wspiedWSP2516-250006.20220607
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Volume 6, Issue 7
Xinjiang University of Science and Technology
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Jianmei Dong. Conversational Analysis of TV Talk: A Case Study of The Pursued Life. [J]. Journal of International Education and Development 6(7):49-56(2022)
Jianmei Dong. Conversational Analysis of TV Talk: A Case Study of The Pursued Life. [J]. Journal of International Education and Development 6(7):49-56(2022) DOI: 10.47297/wspiedWSP2516-250006.20220607.
Based on The Pursued Life
this paper analyzes the conversations from the analysis of conversational structure of global and local two major aspects of the program. Specific research questions are as follows: (1) From a general perspective
what’s the conversational structure of The Pursued Life? (2) From a specific perspective
what can we get through analyzing the Q-A structure and turn-takings of The Pursued Life? (3) What conversational characteristics can we get based on exploring the above two research questions? There are nearly 100 minutes of dialogic corpus being used to transcribe the video file into a word document by the author. The findings are as follows: (1) based on the unit of a day
the beginning-subject-end of the conversational structure is corresponding to the morning-noon-night; (2) the study involves the following two Q-A structures: direct answer and cross question; and two of turns-taking rules are mainly adopted in this research---one is nomination and the other is self-selection; (3) the dialogues in The Pursued Life are characterized as simple and short utterance
frequent taking-turns
much more normal and natural
closely to daily conversation. All in all this research can not only enrich the connotation of the theory of conversational analysis
but also expand the scope of the study.
Conversational structureThe Pursued LifeTV talkDaily conversation
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