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1. Introduction
1.1 A historical review of conversational analysis
1.2 News interviews
1.2.1 Definition of news interview
1.2.2 Features of news interview
1.2.3 Researches available on news interview
1.3 Case study
1.3.1 Motivations on study
1.3.2 Language data
1.3.3 Research method
1.3.4 Organization
2. Communicative Principles
2.1 Grice's Cooperative Principle
2.2 Flouting the maxims
2.3 Leech's Politeness Principle
2.4 Brown and Levinson: Face Theory
2.4.1 Brown and Levinson's theory of politeness
2.4.2 Elaboration on politeness strategies
2.5 Relationship between Cooperative Principle and politeness theories
3. Researches on Context
3.1 Context in Grice's theory
3.2 Traditional views on context
3.3 Sperber and Wilson's view of context
4. Case Study Analysis
4.1 Strategy analysis of Rice's news interview
4.1.1 Maxim violation and application of politeness strategies
4.1.2 Summary
4.2 Strategy analysis of Woods' news interview
4.2.1 Maxim violation and application of politeness strategies
4.2.2 Summary
5. Comparison between the Two News Interviews
5.1 Similarities of the two interviews
5.2 Differences of the two interviews
5.3 Possible factors contributing to the differences
5.3.1 Face-threatening questions or not
5.3.2Interviewees' identity
5.3.3 Targeted audience
6. Conclusion
6.1 General summary
6.2 Limitations and suggestions for future research
Bibliography
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