This study investigates the turn-taking phenomenon in the Oprah Winfrey Show.Its aim is to testify whether turn-taking model proposed by Sacks,Schegloff&Jefferson(1974)can be applied to the TV talk shows.Sections of c...
At 7th January,Oprah Winfrey delivered a speech at the Golden Globes,which causes a great social response.In order to observe the success of the speech,this paper analyzes the speech from lexical,syntax and discourse ...
More than just a drink, tea embodies social, cultural, economic and political meanings through time and across cultures. There is an essential tie between media and this meaning-making process. Media often create and ...
This essay intends to probe into the features which characterize the conversation organization of Oprah Winfrey show by adopting the method of conversation analysis.Hymn’s speaking model is used to analysis the data.
Redressive strategy plays an important role in talk show. This paper attempts to analyze the application of PP (Politeness Principle) and its redressive strategies in Oprah Winfrey's Talk Show from the pragmatic pe...