Структура на разговора

The main topic of this paper is to describe the structural organization of conversation in the specific situation of television talk-shows (chat shows). The analysis of verbal behavior of the hosts and their guests during the opening part of the conversation are based on large corpus of transcripts from real-life television programs. The comparison between casual (ordinary, everyday) conversations and institutional (formal, media) talks outlines the differences between these two forms of communication, specific sequence organization and turns-at-talk combinations.