The Face Preservation Function of Moderator Speech Behavior

In TV programs, hosts often follow the principles of cooperation and politeness, using two major direct face strategies of address and feedback speech and three major indirect face strategies of verbal interruption, verbal humor, and verbal exaggeration to "save the day" and maintain the face of the guests, viewers and themselves, so that the speaker and the addressee can talk to each other in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. The moderator relies on his own empathy, active listening, timely feedback, affirmation and enhancement of the speaker's status, to achieve efficient communication, with superb emergency response ability, timely interruptions, mastery of the discourse initiative, to create a friendly scene. The paper briefly analyzes the direct and indirect face strategies of the moderator's speech acts, the conditions for the formation of the face strategies of the moderator's speech acts, summarizes the whole paper and gives an outlook on the future research on the face-maintaining function of the moderator's speech acts.