Research background
Today’s TV news industry worldwide(传播理念 受众定位与需求 发展趋势)
美国的电视传媒非常发达,所以以美国为主要研究对象
Features of TV news interview in America
留学生媒体学dissertation定制本文对电视新闻采访的界定(参照dissertation写法 美国政坛 体坛 新闻采访。。。。)
而美国最牛的电视新闻采访主持人是(最具有参照性)
Introduction of Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace’s TV news interview style
Pragmatic principles
现在从语用学角度来看他风格的研究很少(做这个研究的目的)
可帮助中国英语节目主持人从语用角度提高自己的新闻采访业务水平
为什么要从语用原则角度来看电视新闻采访的策略?
目标受众 受众需求
Introduction
For the past decades, with the development of technology and increasing demand for free flow of information from the public,American TV news industry has developed by leaps and bounds. At the initial stage, the function of TV news coverage is to inform the public on what has happened but after the coverage of “watergate” scandal in 1972, the audience began to adopt suspicious attitude towards the authentity of every piece of information,then the supervision function of TV news on government and public affairs has reveals(王伟 书P23). Today, the boom of new media, especially the internet, has been favored as the first information source by many people considering the speed and density of news dissemination. However, the authennity and authority of the internet are questioned by the public. (PPTziliao)In a fast—changing society, the masses are not only satisfied with what has happened, but also why that happened and they want to hear the voice straight from the mouth of people engaged in the spot news. Therefore, in an audience—oriented and rating—driven media market in contemprary America with a root in consumerism, the TV news interview focusing on latest public affairs and http://www.ukthesis.org/Thesis_Writing/Media_Management/events drawing a lot of eyeballs has become a major vehicle for presenting news and commentaries and excerts significant influence on a great range of audiences from every walk of life via the language behaviors of program participants. Moreover, as a convention universally acknowledged in American TV news circle, the gate keeper, who has a definite control of what should be revealed and what should not in the TV news program is always the anchor, to be more exact, the charisma and style of a leading anchor greatly determine the style and popularity of a certain program as a whole.
华莱士的介绍
In America, the most enduring and prominent television news personalities is Mike Wallace, his no-holds-barred interviewing technique and enterprising reportage earns him the title of “the father of TV news interview”(PPT 华莱士记者生涯).During his 50—year long-running broadcast career, he has made numerous and timely interviews, and developed a reputation as an inquisitorial interviewer.His relentless pursuit of fidelity and deep exposure of the newsmakers is highly acclaimed by his followers in TV news industry. The producer of “60 minutes”,Dan Hewitt once said, “All the good things at ’60 minutes” started with Mike Wallace, and without him, without 60minutes.”(PPT 华莱士记者生涯) Another famous news anchor, Dan Rather, even considers Mike Wallace as role model for his own career.He used to make a specific analysis of Mike Wallace’s style in news—interview,such as the questioning manners, discourse feature,tone, expression,and gesture,and then concluded that “Mike Wallace is born tobe a news interviewer”. Therefore, a study of Mike Wallace’s discourse in news interview can be of value.#p#分页标题#e#
为留学生dissertation网什么要研究 本dissertation研究目的
Although both Chinese and western researchers have contributed a lot to the study of conversation in news interview from many perpectives,little attention has been paid to pragmatic principles reflected from TV news interviews, especially from the angle of discourse strategies used by hosts, and this paper is intended to deal with this issue specifically, to explain how some discourse that Mike Wallace has applied into his interviews go adherent to pragmatic principles,why some discourse do not go adherent to pragmatic principles, and to find out what kind of effects that the violation of some pragmatic principles can make.
理论依据 theoretical framework
The paper, based on the theories of pragmatics including Grice’s cooperative principle,leech’s politeness principle, Brown&Levinson’s face theory
前人学术研究(新闻采访中质疑性提问语用策略分析)
对新闻采访话语的研究
Scholars are always interested in the study of conversation in news interview and they have analyze it from many perspectives. Some linguists study the conversation in news interview with the approach of discourse analysis, and their focus are mainly on the discourse of interviewees.
对语用策略研究
留学生dissertation本研究将借鉴目的意图原则来解释相关策略现象
语料来源
The source of data for this study is a transcript of Mike Wallace’s interviews at “60 Minutes”,an celebrated electronic news magzine,
研究目的
Through the study of this topic, it will probe into some strategies that Mike Wallace has adopted in TV news interviews to realize a certain pragmatic function ,which will not only facilitate chinese anchors to improve discourse competence with repect to a dynamic adoptation of pragmatic principles in TV news interview, but also be conducive to research in similar fields in the future .
概念定义
电视新闻采访
so this study intend to probe into the features which characterize the style of Mike Wallace’s TV news interview by adopting the method based on pragmatic principles.
介绍华莱士和他的采访风格
TV news interviews are designed to tell stories about political figures, disputable characters, socialites or people of news value. In such information—oriented situation, the success of interviews is largely determined by the host, who is considered as the “speakman of a program”(试谈主持人眼与互动PDF)
前人的研究(对电视新闻采访的定义 语言特色)
In light of the growing influence of TV news interview, many linguists have come to analyze interviews, from pragmatic perspective. They constantly apply theories of conversational analysis to TV news interview, especially the political interviews, which,according to them can be defined as institutional, functionally specialized form of social interaction produced for an “overhearing audiences”(heritage 1985 美国政坛与体坛)#p#分页标题#e#
留学dissertation研究意义(电视人物访谈)
The research topic stems from two considerations. One reason that motivates the study is that an analysis of Mike Wallace’s TV news interview style with a pragmatic approach can assist Chinese hosts in English TV news interviews with improvement of their professional quality in terms of the use of inquiry language(提问语言的运用) and master of lingual interactivity(言语互动能力的把握). While the reason mentioned above is of practical nature, the other is of theoretical concern. Although the research relating to TV news interviews has been examined at all levels, there is not sufficient study from the angle of pragmatic principles.
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