Analysis of Oprah Winfrey Talk Show from the Perspective of the Violation of Cooperative Principle
second part, it has showed some previous studies. In terms of the four maxims, the main part of the article was divided into four parts. In each part, which has quoted some strategies to show how the host and guest violating the CP, in order to avoid conflict and embarrass. From the article, we can see that host and guest prefer to use strategies to express there attitude or emotion, so that the host and audience will believing them.
By doing so, we can better comprehend and appreciate the talk show. Beside, the study will benefical to the further comprehension of the conversational features of the talk show. What?s more, this study may supply the findings of previous research on conversational implicature of the talk show. In addition, findings in this paper are prospected to set light on the further investigation of Chinese TV talk show, and promisingly the results of this research could be used to design dialogue of the talk show.
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Analysis of Oprah Winfrey Talk Show from the Perspective of the Violation of Cooperative Principle
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