Exploring The Meaning and Practice of Interpersonal Communication: A Study of Stephen Chow's Fans

• Main Authors: Yong-pei Tao, 陶詠霈
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00424668161612752299

碩士 === 世新大學 === 口語傳播學研究所 === 98 === The research is designed to understand how the fans communicate with each other. This paper aims to analyze Stephen Chow’s fans for example and focuses on their interpersonal communication, from a rhetorical perspective. What is the fans’ self- identity? What are their rhetorical visions? These are the focused questions of this research. Based on the symbolic convergence theory (SCT), the study finds out the perspectives as well as the interaction of Stephen Chow’s fans, and realizes the process of their self- identity to community- identity by fantasy theme analysis. Research results show that fans’ self- identitity and rhetorical visions are influenced by the positive values as “kindness/ goodness” and “happiness” in the films. They would have the sense of humor and overcome difficulties because of the nonsense performances in the movies. For them, either meeting Stephen Chow or seeing his movies could take them the values as “kindness/ goodness” and “happiness”. No matter Stephen Chow plays what kind of roles, his fans can always catch the message, which is “ I want to be a good guy from now on. ” In conclusion, all the things of representation and reproduction, and process of the fans’ self- identity to community- identity is the meaning of interpersonal communication. The practice/ praxis of communication mean the interaction of fans’ do and the life attitude, which we should always keep in mind.