重返部落化:结绳记事的传播模式、机理与功能探赜

Returning to Tribalization:An Analysis of the Communication Mode,Mechanism and Function of Knotting Cord

结绳记事是史前时代乃至文明时代一些少数民族的原始部落中都曾存在过的一种古老的信息记载和传递方式,具有明显的情感交往功能。从传播学的角度来看,本文认为其传播模式是通过绳结这种体外媒介来构造意象,传者的"意"通过绳结创设成"象",他者通过"象"的解读来获取信息、交流情感。其内在传播机理则是绳结传播者通过触觉计数将自身沉浸于记忆情境中,并通过口语讲述、身体展演、情感抒发等方式来传递信息和情感,而他者则通过打通身体的各个官能,让感官达到整合、平衡、和谐的状态,进而获得通感式体验,由此达到对信息的认知和情感的共鸣,这是一种身体与情感交融的内在传播机理。在结绳记事的这种"具身传播"中,个体与外界建立联系,构筑了关系网络,形成了具有特定交往逻辑的部落社会。

Knotting cord is an ancient way of recording and transmitting information that existed in some primitive tribes of ethnic minorities in prehistory and even civilization,and has obvious emotional communication function.From the perspective of communication,this article considers that its mode of communication is to construct images through knots—an in vitro medium.The"intention"of the predecessor is created into"images"through the knots,and the others obtain information,exchange of emotions through the interpretation of"images".The internal communication mechanism is that the knot communicator immerse himself in memory situations through tactile counting and transmits information and emotions through oral narration,physical performance,emotional expression,etc.,and then by opening up the various faculties of the body,the others make the senses reach a state of integration,balance,and harmony,and then obtain a synaesthetic experience,thereby gaining the cognition of information and emotional resonance,this is an internal communication mechanism of the integration of body and emotion.In the"embody communication"of the knotting cord,individuals establish contact with the outside world,build a network of relationships,and form a tribal society with a specific communication logic.