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The data involved the interrupting utterances of male and female hosts in Chinese and Japanese talk shows were collected in the study, which intend to clarify the actual use of interrupting utterances acts between the male and female hosts. Specifically, taken male and female hosts from talk shows in above two countries as the subjects of the study, 80 conversational data on conversations with guests were collected for analysis. The results of the analysis demonstrated that male and female hosts frequently used the interjection function of “prompting for new information”, while the proportion of “making a common conversation appealing discourse” was higher in Japan. On the consideration for the characteristics on the location of interrupting utterances, it was found that Chinese hosts used the interrupting utterances in the “question” part. The interrupting utterances were often used by Japanese female hosts at the ”preoccu-pation”, except for at the “supplementation” and “comment”. In the conversation after the interrupting utterances, “the right to speak received by the interrupter” was often observed in the Chinese male hosts while the Japanese hosts is often seen to “continue the conversation of the interrupted person. In particular, Japanese male moderators often interjected in the form of complementing the speaker’s speech to ensure the smooth communication of each other.