霍顿司法调查中的重要直接证据是联合国武器核查委员会生物武器专家大卫·凯利与英国广播公司编辑苏珊·瓦茨的电话录音。本文对电话录音文本进行转写和标注,按照功能主义的研究方法对信息分布、会话含义、情态进行统计和分析,揭示交际双方的信息关注和评价存在很大的不对称性,英国广播公司记者的采访存在很大漏洞,这些问题最终酿成了凯利之死的悲剧。 Important direct evidence in Horton’s judicial investigation is the telephone recording of David Kelly, a biological weapons expert with the UN Arms Verification Commission, and Susan Watts, BBC editor. This paper transcribes and marks telephone recording texts, and statistics and analyzes information distribution, conversational meanings and modalities according to the functionalist research methods, revealing that there is a great asymmetry in the information attention and evaluation of both parties involved in communication. BBC reporters Of the interview there is a big loophole, these problems eventually led to the tragedy of Kelly’s death.