Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation, and Power in Japan and Other Societies
Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation, and Power in Japan and Other Societies
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包裹文化：日本和其他社会的礼貌、表现和权力
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1994
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J. Hendry
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J. Hendry
包装文化关注跨文化交流的问题以及在不熟悉的环境中对熟悉的事物进行误解的可能性。乔伊·亨德利从对礼品包装的考察开始，展示了我们的期望如何经常受到文化因素的影响，而这些文化因素可能会让我们忽视潜在意图的欣赏。然后，她将这种方法扩展到研究礼貌语言作为思想和意图的包裹，服装作为身体包裹，建筑和花园作为空间包裹，甚至研究人们可能被包裹在座位安排中的方式，或者会议和饮酒习俗可能受到包裹的时间版本的限制。亨德利博士在整本书中思考了人们使用这些象征形式来相互印象和操纵的方式，并指出了西方人低估这种非语言交流的倾向，或者将其视为纯粹的装饰而拒绝接受。她提出的想法在任何跨文化接触中都应该有效，并表明日本文化（通常被认为是一个特例）可以提供一个模型，通过该模型我们可以制定有关人类行为的一般理论。
Wrapping Culture is concerned with problems of intercultural communication and the possibilities for misinterpretation of the familiar in an unfamiliar context. Starting with an examination of gift-wrapping, Joy Hendry demonstrates how our expectations are often influenced by cultural factors which may blind us to an appreciation of underlying intent. She then extends this approach to the study of polite language as the wrapping of thoughts and intentions, garments as body wrappings, constructions and gardens as wrapping of space, and even to the ways in which people may be wrapped in seating arrangements, or meetings and drinking customs may be constrained by temporal versions of wrapping. Throughout the book, Dr Hendry considers ways in which groups of people use such symbolic forms to impress and manipulate one another, and points out a Western tendency to underestimate such non-verbal communication, or reject it as mere decoration. The ideas she presents should be valid in any intercultural encounter and demonstrate that Japanese culture, so often thought of as a special case, can supply a model through which we can formulate general theories about human behaviour.