摘要
在17、18、19世纪的欧洲城镇,人们听到的声音与现在的迥然不同,差异之下更有深层原因:与我们今天试图逃避城市噪音不同,对早期现代城镇的居民来说,声音是信息的关键来源。声音形成了一个符号系统,其传递消息、帮助人们随时随地确定所处的时间和位置,并且让他们成为"听觉社群"(auditory community)的一部分。声音帮助建立身份认同感和人们之间的关系。这个信息系统的演进,反映了社会以及政治组织的变化,也反映了人们对时间和城市空间的态度的变化。
In European towns of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, the sounds people heard then were quite different from those of today. Yet the difference goes much deeper： whereas today urbanites try to escape the unbearable city noises, sound served as a crucial source of information for the inhabitants of early modem towns. Sound has constituted a semiotic system, conveying messages, helping people to locate themselves in time and in space, and making them part of an ＂auditory community＂. Sound helped to construct identity and to structure relationships. The evolution of this information system reflects changes in social and political organization and in attitudes towards time and urban space.
出处
《文学与文化》
2017年第4期55-63,共9页
Literature and Culture Studies
