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Acknowledgements
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Chapter One Introduction
1.1Introduction
1.2 Historical background of talk shows
1.3 The rationale of the present study
1.4The problems of the existing studies
1.5 Objectives of the present study
1.6 Methodology
1.7 Outline of the thesis
Chapter Two A Review of the Relevant Literature
2.1 Introduction
2.2Turn-taking mechanism
2.2.1 Turn and turn-taking
2.2.2 Methods of yielding and claiming a turn
2.3Former researches on turn-taking in different discourses
2.3.1 Turn-taking in daily conversation
2.3.2 Turn-taking in institutional discourse
2.4 Existing researches on talk shows
2.5 Summary
Chapter Three Methodology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Research methodology of the previous study
3.3 Research methodology of the present study
3.4 Data collection
3.5 Summary
Chapter Four Description of the Framework
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Power and institutional power
4.3 The distribution of power in talk shows
4.4 Jef Vershueren's linguistic adaptation theory
4.5 Turn-taking as a realization mechanism of adaptation
4.5.1 Why is the turn-taking specific in talk shows?
4.5.2 To what do the host and the guests adapt?
4.6 Summary
Chapter Five Analysis
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The show hosts' and the show guests' adaptation to their own institutionally defined powers in the phase of turn initiation
5.3 The show hosts' and the show guests' adaptation to their own institutionally defined powers in the phase of turn development
5.3.1 Turn-type allocation
5.3.2 Turn control strategies
5.4 The show hosts' and the show guests' adaptation to their oven institutionally defined powers in the phase of turn ending
5.5 Summary
Chapter Six Conclusion
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Discussion of the results
6.3 Limitations of this study
6.4 Suggestions for future research
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