A Study On Interactional Metadiscourse In The English Television Interview From The Perspective Of Gricean Cooperative Principle

In metadiscourse analysis,developments in oral discourse are less valued than the oral discourse because no systematic studies are made based on a practical model.Therefore,the emphases of this paper are on the overall distribution of the interactional metadiscourse in the English Television Interview and on the relationship between typical interactional metadiscourse and Cooperative Principle(CP for short).For the purposes of the study,two research questions are put forward:1.What is the overall distribution of interactional metadiscourse in the English Television Interview?2.In what way is interactional metadiscourse related to Gricean Cooperative Principle in the English Television Interview?In terms of the research methods,this study adopts both the quantitative and qualitative method.The quantitative approach requires ten English interviews randomly from Yang Lan Talk One on One with different topics in the recent 6 years,with a total number of 26,587 words within 306 minutes.By means of Antconc 3.2.1w,we mainly calculated the occurrence frequency of typical interactional metadiscourse on the average length of 1000 words to ensure the validity and accuracy of the study.Through the qualitative method,we analyzed how typical interactional metadiscourse resources are related to maxims under the theoretical framework of Gricean Cooperative Principle.In accordance with the analysis of the data,following conclusions can be reached:Firstly,the study reveals that,in the English Television Interview,all the five types of interactional metadiscourse can be found with different occurrence frequencies.Among them,self-mentions have the highest occurrence with 37.84%,followed by engagement markers with 24.83%.Hedges and boosters share similar frequencies of 13.73%and 17.34%respectively,while attitude markers own the lowest frequency of 6.25%.Secondly,the relations between interactional metadiscourse markers and Cooperative Principle are complicated.For one thing,among the four maxims,only the maxim of relation matches with all interactional metadiscourse makers.Additionally,each subcategory of interactional metadiscourse can match more than one maxim in CP.For another,engagement markers,self-mentions and attitude markers contribute to interactions between conversationalists,while interactional factors are ignored in CP.Thus,it is necessary to add the maxim of interaction to CP.