A Study On Interpersonal Communication In Chinese Country In Transitional Period

Content::From the perspective of public space, this paper studies interpersonal communication in China country. Based on the survey of two villages, it demonstrates and generalizes characteristics of interpersonal communication in country and its social effect as well, by applying relevant communication models and theories. The paper includes three parts:First, it introduces the environment of interpersonal communication in Chinese country, including such social conditions as economic level, educational situation, and tendency of working in cities, peasants'burden and market cultivating. And it puts forward that rural circumstance acts as interpersonal communication environment and topic of interpersonal communication in public space.Second, based on the description of target countries, the paper narrates the investigative target in terms of characteristics and structure of rural public service and reasons of choosing the subjects. It combines the collected information to analyze and generalize the characteristics of interpersonal communication in four aspects of communication content, symbol, subject and aim. The author believes that as for the content of communication, topics of international communication interaction are flexible and there is selectiveness between topics and space; as for the communication symbol, non-language symbol and anaphora contain rich meaning; as for communication subject, there is consistency between subject and public space, and subject, as fixed small groups, remains relatively stable, though flowing; as for the communication aim, rural interpersonal communication demonstrates the decrease of human kindness and burst of fame and wealth, which results from the awakening of farmers'market consciousness. Starting from the concept of"communicate scope", the paper expounds the influence that communication context has on communication subject, content and means, and suggests that interpersonal communication serves as the structure of the communication context and interpersonal communication in public space has become one part of rural social structure.Finally, it discusses the influence exerted by interpersonal communication in public space on social development, for instance, exchanging information, maintaining interpersonal relationship, integrating non-governmental organizations and power, developing opinion leadership and forming media pressure. At the endings, the paper explores rural interpersonal communication in transient period in the light of communication subjects, content, aim from a general vision, and indicates influence that economic structure change and social development have exerted on interpersonal communication and other communication means. The author summarizes the innovation of the study and its limitation as well.