This article aims to propose a pilot framework for studying personal experience
stories in broadcast news interviews. Based on Labovian oral narrative schema, this
article suggests that oral narrative researches put special emphasis on interaction
contexts and the use of multimode. On the one hand, conversation analysis, which
is sensitive to the context in talk and stresses to analyze data from participants’
point of view, is considered as an efficient way to define narrative elements and
explore the context of telling personal experience stories. On the other hand, a
broadcast interview is a multimodal activity which is composed of gaze, gesture,
language and image. By analyzing personal experience stories in broadcast news
interviews, researchers can explore how interviewees’ personal experience stories
including the temporal and spatial dimensions and the future orientation are
constructed in the interaction between an interviewer and an interviewee.