| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第6-10页 |
| Transcription conventions | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-18页 |
| ·Introduction | 第11-12页 |
| ·Historical background of talk shows | 第12-13页 |
| ·The rationale of the present study | 第13-14页 |
| ·The problems of the existing studies | 第14-15页 |
| ·Objectives of the present study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Methodology | 第16页 |
| ·Outline of the thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two A Review of the Relevant Literature | 第18-39页 |
| ·Introduction | 第18页 |
| ·Turn-taking mechanism | 第18-26页 |
| ·Turn and turn-taking | 第18-22页 |
| ·Methods of yielding and claiming a turn | 第22-26页 |
| ·Methods of yielding a turn | 第22-23页 |
| ·Methods of claiming a turn | 第23-24页 |
| ·Interruption, overlap and insertion | 第24-26页 |
| ·Former researches on turn-taking in different discourses | 第26-34页 |
| ·Turn-taking in daily conversation | 第26-29页 |
| ·Turn-taking in institutional discourse | 第29-34页 |
| ·Existing researches on talk shows | 第34-38页 |
| ·Summary | 第38-39页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第39-42页 |
| ·Introduction | 第39页 |
| ·Research methodology of the previous study | 第39-40页 |
| ·Research methodology of the present study | 第40页 |
| ·Data collection | 第40-41页 |
| ·Summary | 第41-42页 |
| Chapter Four Description of the Framework | 第42-51页 |
| ·Introduction | 第42页 |
| ·Power and institutional power | 第42-45页 |
| ·The distribution of power in talk shows | 第45-47页 |
| ·Jef Vershueren's linguistic adaptation theory | 第47-48页 |
| ·Turn-taking as a realization mechanism of adaptation | 第48-50页 |
| ·Why is the turn-taking specific in talk shows? | 第48-49页 |
| ·To what do the host and the guests adapt? | 第49-50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-51页 |
| Chapter Five Analysis | 第51-77页 |
| ·Introduction | 第51页 |
| ·The show hosts' and the show guests' adaptation to their own institutionally defined powers in the phase of turn initiation | 第51-54页 |
| ·The show hosts' and the show guests' adaptation to their own institutionally defined powers in the phase of turn development | 第54-74页 |
| ·Turn-type allocation | 第54-56页 |
| ·Turn control strategies | 第56-74页 |
| ·Turn yielding | 第56-66页 |
| ·Nomination | 第58-61页 |
| ·Self-selection | 第61-63页 |
| ·Complete self-selection | 第63-66页 |
| ·Summary | 第66页 |
| ·Turn claiming | 第66-74页 |
| ·Insertion | 第68-70页 |
| ·Overlap | 第70-71页 |
| ·Interruption | 第71-73页 |
| ·Summary | 第73-74页 |
| ·The show hosts' and the show guests' adaptation to their own institutionally defined powers in the phase of turn ending | 第74-75页 |
| ·Summary | 第75-77页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第77-81页 |
| ·Introduction | 第77页 |
| ·Discussion of the results | 第77-79页 |
| ·Limitations of this study | 第79-80页 |
| ·Suggestions for future research | 第80-81页 |
| References | 第81-85页 |
