Research background
Today’s TV news industry worldwide（傳播理念 受眾定位與需求 發展趨勢）
美國的電視傳媒非常發達，所以以美國為主要研究對象
Features of TV news interview in America
留學生媒體學dissertation定制本文對電視新聞采訪的界定(參照dissertation寫法 美國政壇 體壇 新聞采訪。。。。)
而美國最牛的電視新聞采訪主持人是（最具有參照性）
Introduction of Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace’s TV news interview style
Pragmatic principles
現在從語用學角度來看他風格的研究很少（做這個研究的目的）
可幫助中國英語節目主持人從語用角度提高自己的新聞采訪業務水平

為什么要從語用原則角度來看電視新聞采訪的策略？
目標受眾 受眾需求

Introduction
For the past decades, with the development of technology and increasing demand for free flow of information from the public,American TV news industry has developed by leaps and bounds. At the initial stage, the function of TV news coverage is to inform the public on what has happened but after the coverage of “watergate” scandal in 1972, the audience began to adopt suspicious attitude towards the authentity of every piece of information,then the supervision function of TV news on government and public affairs has reveals(王偉 書P23). Today, the boom of new media, especially the internet, has been favored as the first information source by many people considering the speed and density of news dissemination. However, the authennity and authority of the internet are questioned by the public. (PPTziliao)In a fast—changing society, the masses are not only satisfied with what has happened, but also why that happened and they want to hear the voice straight from the mouth of people engaged in the spot news. Therefore, in an audience—oriented and rating—driven media market in contemprary America with a root in consumerism, the TV news interview focusing on latest public affairs and http://www.400190.com/Thesis_Writing/Media_Management/events drawing a lot of eyeballs has become a major vehicle for presenting news and commentaries and excerts significant influence on a great range of audiences from every walk of life via the language behaviors of program participants. Moreover, as a convention universally acknowledged in American TV news circle, the gate keeper, who has a definite control of what should be revealed and what should not in the TV news program is always the anchor, to be more exact, the charisma and style of a leading anchor greatly determine the style and popularity of a certain program as a whole.

華萊士的介紹
In America, the most enduring and prominent television news personalities is Mike Wallace, his no-holds-barred interviewing technique and enterprising reportage earns him the title of “the father of TV news interview”(PPT 華萊士記者生涯).During his 50—year long-running broadcast career, he has made numerous and timely interviews, and developed a reputation as an inquisitorial interviewer.His relentless pursuit of fidelity and deep exposure of the newsmakers is highly acclaimed by his followers in TV news industry. The producer of “60 minutes”,Dan Hewitt once said, “All the good things at ’60 minutes” started with Mike Wallace, and without him, without 60minutes.”(PPT 華萊士記者生涯) Another famous news anchor, Dan Rather, even considers Mike Wallace as role model for his own career.He used to make a specific analysis of Mike Wallace’s style in news—interview,such as the questioning manners, discourse feature,tone, expression,and gesture,and then concluded that “Mike Wallace is born tobe a news interviewer”. Therefore, a study of Mike Wallace’s discourse in news interview can be of value.#p#分頁標題#e#

為留學生dissertation網什么要研究 本dissertation研究目的
Although both Chinese and western researchers have contributed a lot to the study of conversation in news interview from many perpectives,little attention has been paid to pragmatic principles reflected from TV news interviews, especially from the angle of discourse strategies used by hosts, and this paper is intended to deal with this issue specifically, to explain how some discourse that Mike Wallace has applied into his interviews go adherent to pragmatic principles,why some discourse do not go adherent to pragmatic principles, and to find out what kind of effects that the violation of some pragmatic principles can make.

理論依據 theoretical framework
The paper, based on the theories of pragmatics including Grice’s cooperative principle,leech’s politeness principle, Brown&Levinson’s face theory

前人學術研究（新聞采訪中質疑性提問語用策略分析）
對新聞采訪話語的研究
Scholars are always interested in the study of conversation in news interview and they have analyze it from many perspectives. Some linguists study the conversation in news interview with the approach of discourse analysis, and their focus are mainly on the discourse of interviewees.
對語用策略研究
留學生dissertation本研究將借鑒目的意圖原則來解釋相關策略現象

語料來源
The source of data for this study is a transcript of Mike Wallace’s interviews at “60 Minutes”,an celebrated electronic news magzine,

研究目的
Through the study of this topic, it will probe into some strategies that Mike Wallace has adopted in TV news interviews to realize a certain pragmatic function ,which will not only facilitate chinese anchors to improve discourse competence with repect to a dynamic adoptation of pragmatic principles in TV news interview, but also be conducive to research in similar fields in the future .

概念定義
電視新聞采訪

so this study intend to probe into the features which characterize the style of Mike Wallace’s TV news interview by adopting the method based on pragmatic principles.

介紹華萊士和他的采訪風格
TV news interviews are designed to tell stories about political figures, disputable characters, socialites or people of news value. In such information—oriented situation, the success of interviews is largely determined by the host, who is considered as the “speakman of a program”（試談主持人眼與互動PDF）

前人的研究(對電視新聞采訪的定義 語言特色)
In light of the growing influence of TV news interview, many linguists have come to analyze interviews, from pragmatic perspective. They constantly apply theories of conversational analysis to TV news interview, especially the political interviews, which,according to them can be defined as institutional, functionally specialized form of social interaction produced for an “overhearing audiences”(heritage 1985 美國政壇與體壇)#p#分頁標題#e#

留學dissertation研究意義(電視人物訪談)
The research topic stems from two considerations. One reason that motivates the study is that an analysis of Mike Wallace’s TV news interview style with a pragmatic approach can assist Chinese hosts in English TV news interviews with improvement of their professional quality in terms of the use of inquiry language(提問語言的運用) and master of lingual interactivity（言語互動能力的把握）. While the reason mentioned above is of practical nature, the other is of theoretical concern. Although the research relating to TV news interviews has been examined at all levels, there is not sufficient study from the angle of pragmatic principles.