| 词条 | unit2 7-8 |
| 释义 | From the para7-8,we can see showing off is an offensive behavior.If one person shows off himself often,he can't be a popular guy,and he has not [doesn't have] good manners.But from another viwe to analyze this behavior,showing off is a form of communication,providing information about an individual, often in a widely observable forum. In order for a display to be worth performing, there must be an audience. In order for observers to bother paying attention, it must benefit them to do so. According to costly signaling theory, the observer benefit for paying attention is the information about an otherwise hidden quality that is conveyed by the display.The information is kept honest through intrinsic links between the production of the display and the quality being advertised. Honesty is ensured when individuals of higher quality can pay highest costs to produce a more elaborate display or when individuals gain higher benefits for producing a display of given cost. The differential costs or benefits of signal production make it highly unlikely that lower quality individuals will be able to fake the signal: they cannot afford to. The honesty of the information provided [provides] in a display [and] gives an immediate benefit to observers because they can use the information to adjust their own behavior toward [towards] the show-off to benefit themselves. |
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