| （School of Physical Education，South China Normal University，Guangzhou 510006，China) Abstract: Based on Bakhtin’s carnival theory, combined with the special situation of square dance in China nowadays, the authors analyzed square dance carnival in reality and virtual space, and put forward the following opinions: 1) square dance carnival in reality and virtual space has common characteristics such as public participative, celebrative, and disruptive etc, forming the characteristics of square dance news reports through carnivalized people image building and carnivalized language catharsis; 2) square dance heterogeneous carnival groups have the same way of thinking and psychological characteristics, but hold a set of logics respectively, showing problems such as disruptiveness and ab-sence of the sense of responsibility of group catharsis brought by “discourse hegemony”, “discourse right loss” and “square effect”; 3) for square dance carnival, people should understand the deep connotation of carnival spirit, replace monologue with dialog in terms of the thoughts of heterogeneous groups, thus promote consensuses, and enhance the community awareness of understanding, respecting and tolerating between the groups.
Key words: sports culture；square dance；carnival theory；virtual space |
