本文旨在説明及分析以卡拉OK爲中心的傳通環境(communication environment) ， 其如何繼承一個模糊的(ambiguous) 人際角色 架構(role structure)，因而引起一些新奇有趣和値得研討的人際傳通 現象。根據在美國、香港、臺灣和曰本所作以民族諸學(ethnography) 方法實地調查得來的資料 ，本文首先檢討傳通和身份構成 (identity construction)之間息息相關的關係。之後，此研究會就下列 兵項課題作出一些研討和兹釋：（1)卡拉OK身爲一種傳通環境和媒介 的本質：⑵卡拉0K的模糊角色架構；（3赠卡拉0K比喻爲面具或臉譜 來了解人們在傳通時，如何可以利用存在於卡拉oic的一些戲劇性成 份，作爲他們在創造身份認同時的一種象徵性的敘事(narrative)和傳 通工具。最後，本文會就上述的討論作出總結分析。

This essay is an interpretation of the complexity and ambiguity inherent in the construction, presentation, maintenance and transformation of identity in the social and performative context of karaoke. The analysis begins with an examination of the symbiotic or interdependent relationship between communication and identity. Based on field research in Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and the United States, the examination will then turn to a discussion on (1) the nature of karaoke as a medium or context for communic ation, (2) the ambiguity of role-playing in karaoke, and (3) karaoke as mask and its implication for understanding how karaoke’s dramatic elements are incorporated for communication and identity, construction. The essay will conclude with an analysis of the implications of the ambiguity of karaoke for our understanding of communication and identity construction.