| Chinese Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| Tagging Scheme of the Corpus | 第9-10页 |
| Figures and Tables | 第10-12页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第12-14页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第14-19页 |
| 1．1 Why talk shows? | 第14-16页 |
| 1．2 Why Chinese talk shows? | 第16-19页 |
| CHAPTER TWO THE STATE OF ART | 第19-31页 |
| 2．1 Media study on talk shows: a television genre | 第19-22页 |
| 2．2 Linguistic research: multiple approaches | 第22-28页 |
| 2．3 Scarcity of genre analysis on the talk show | 第28-31页 |
| CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH PRELIMINARIES & THEORETICAL BASIS | 第31-53页 |
| 3．1 Genre and genre analysis | 第31-36页 |
| 3．1．1 Genre: its definition and characteristics | 第31-33页 |
| 3．1．2 Genre analysis: an effective approach | 第33-36页 |
| 3．2 Talk show as a spoken genre | 第36-38页 |
| 3．3 Theoretical framework | 第38-44页 |
| 3．4 Research objectives | 第44-45页 |
| 3．5 Data collection & data management | 第45-53页 |
| 3．5．1 Classification of Chinese talk shows | 第45-47页 |
| 3．5．2 Corpus and data collection method | 第47-51页 |
| 3．5．3 Corpus tagging and parsing | 第51-53页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE REALIZATIONS | 第53-86页 |
| 4．1 Major functions of the opening and the ending and related linguistic realizations | 第53-76页 |
| 4．1．1 Linguistic features and the interpersonal functions | 第55-65页 |
| 4．1．1．1 Relationship-building and title | 第56-58页 |
| 4．1．1．2 Relationship-building and aw | 第58-62页 |
| 4．1．1．3 Atmosphere-creating and joke/hum | 第62-64页 |
| 4．1．1．4 Interpersonal elements in the ending | 第64-65页 |
| 4．1．2 Linguistic features and the ideational functions | 第65-75页 |
| 4．1．2．1 Types of sentences | 第66-69页 |
| 4．1．2．2 Tense and voice | 第69页 |
| 4．1．2．3 Grammatical constructions | 第69-74页 |
| 4．1．2．4 Lexical choices | 第74-75页 |
| 4．1．3 Correlation tests of the language features | 第75-76页 |
| 4．2 Comparative features within and across programs | 第76-86页 |
| 4．2．1 Linguistic variance within the same talk show | 第77-80页 |
| 4．2．1．1 The addressee variable | 第77-79页 |
| 4．2．1．2 The topic variable | 第79-80页 |
| 4．2．2 Linguistic variance across different programs | 第80-86页 |
| 4．2．2．1 Steps to test the degrees of formality | 第82-86页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE COGNITIVE ANALYSIS OF GENRE CONSTRUCTION | 第86-105页 |
| 5．1 Move structure of the opening | 第86-94页 |
| 5．2 Move structure of the ending | 第94-98页 |
| 5．3 Verification of move structure: a statistical case study | 第98-105页 |
| 5．3．1 The opening move structure of Legal Report | 第100-102页 |
| 5．3．2 The ending move structure of Legal Report | 第102-105页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第105-112页 |
| 6．1 Major findings of this study | 第106页 |
| 6．2 Significance of this study | 第106-109页 |
| 6．3 Prospects for further research | 第109-112页 |
| APPENDIX Ⅰ STATISTICS OF THE MS ELEMENTS | 第112-118页 |
| APPENDIX Ⅱ SAMPLE DATA OF THE CORPUS | 第118-121页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第121-123页 |
