Based on turn-taking rules,this paper makes a study on turn-taking in the TV interviews.

The present study intends to conduct a relevance-theoretic study of discourse markers (DMs) employed in TV interviews.

This thesis is a pragmatic analysis of the interviewer statement in the setting of Chinese TV interview, with a view to exploring the major illocutionary functions of these statements and the interviewers interpretation process towards interviewees previous response before they make the statements.

Besides the narrative features of everyday conversation,the narrative discourse of television interview is also influenced by its institutional context.

As a pre-prepared talk for the audience,the discourse of television interview is influenced by its institutional context.

With the rapid development of mass media, TV news interview programs have become more and more popular in recent years and drawn the attention of scholars both at home and abroad.

And the analysis of the conversations in TV interview programs by using this new model can serve as the valid and powerful support to the rationality and validity of this model.

This paper firstly makes an elaboration on this model, then analyzes the questionings in TV interview programs under this model, the results of which can serve as the valid and powerful support to the rationality and validity of the model for successful questioning.

This paper puts forth a tentative framework for the analysis of the pragmatic functions displayed by N-type or non-standard questions occurring in TV feature interviews.