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.

This hypothesis is attested to from three aspects: (1) The question-answer format turn-taking of TV news interviews, different from that of ordinary conversation, is aimed for positive social effects; (2) As a social media tool, TV news interview talk has its own ta.

This thesis presents a case study of CNN s Larry King Live to explore the conversational structure of an English TV news interview from the perspective of conversational analysis (CA).

Based on functional grammar s account of context, modality and interpersonal meaning as well as modern theories of stylistics, the paper tries to study the style of news interview English from the different levels: discourse level, lexical-grammar level, and the modality functions, and it notes that the style of news interview has the features of interpersonal meaning.

As a special type of conversation, news interview is different from people s daily conversation on several aspects.

A great many scholars have done lots of researches on news interviews and have raised many theories on it.

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.