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英语电视访谈中的元话语对比研究综述报告 Introduction Asaformofmediadiscourse,Englishtelevisioninterviewsoftenfeatureasetofstandardformulaicexpressionsknownasdiscoursemarkersormetadiscoursemarkers(MDMs).Theseexpressionscanbeusedbytheinterviewertomanagetheflowofconversationandtosignaltheirattitude,stanceorintentionsaboutthetopicbeingdiscussedortheinterlocutorbeinginterviewed.Inthisreport,wewillprovideacomparativeanalysisofcommonmetadiscoursemarkersusedinEnglishtelevisioninterviews,withaparticularfocusonthedifferencesbetweentheinterviewerandinterviewee. Background Metadiscourseisdefinedas“thereflexiveuseoflanguagetorefertotheongoinginteractionbetweenthewriter(orspeaker)andthereader(orlistener)”(Hyland,2005,p.4).Itisapervasivefeatureofcommunicativeinteractions,includingtelevisioninterviews,andplaysanimportantroleinshapingthediscourseandinterpersonalrelationsoftheparticipants.MDMscanbeusedtoconveyarangeoffunctions,suchasthoserelatedtoorganization,persuasion,evaluation,andinteractionalcohesion(Crismoreetal.,1989;Hyland,2000;Schiffrin,1987). WhileMDMsareacommonfeatureofalldialogicdiscourse,theiruseanddistributionvaryaccordingtofactorssuchasgenre,context,andsocialrolesoftheparticipants.Intelevisioninterviews,forexample,therolesoftheinterviewerandintervieweeareasymmetricandofteninvolvedifferentsetsofexpectationsandnormsofinteraction.Theintervieweristypicallyresponsibleforinitiatingandsteeringtheinterview,whiletheintervieweeisexpectedtorespondandprovideinformationinacoherentandrelevantmanner.ThesedifferentrolesarereflectedintheuseofMDMs,whichcanhelptoportraytheintervieweeasknowledgeableandcooperative,andtheinterviewerasattentiveandsupportive. Methods WeanalyzedacorpusoffiveEnglishtelevisioninterviewsselectedfromdifferentdomains,includingpolitics,entertainment,andsports.Foreachinterview,wetranscribedthedialoguesandidentifiedMDMsusedbytheinterviewerandinterviewee.Wethenclassifiedthemaccordingtotheirfunctionandexaminedtheirdistributionacrosstheinterviews. Results Wefoundthatboththeinterviewerandthe