Interactive communication, typical of interpersonal exchanges, is achieved through the cooperation between the participants, who take turns to maintain the interaction by applying communicative strategies, conversational skills as well as non verbal means.

It is important to grasp talking technique in the process of mediating labor disputes We should hold some methods regarding to an individual talking according to various minds that the parties to industrial relations have in the process of mediating labor disputes in order to achieve the goal of mediating labor disputes

This thesis investigates the turn-taking phenomenon between hosts and guests and the turn-control strategies they adopt in CCTV 9’s English talk program Dialogue.

Following the turn-taking model proposed by Schegloff, Jefferson and Sacks(1974) through the analysis of daily conversation, and taking the nature and characteristics of talk show into full account, the thesis has explored the turn-taking rules and turn-control strategies in talk show programs.