“口述历史”是历史学者借助口头和录音等传播手段,从口述者的讲述中获取历史信息的特殊的传播活动。口述历史是一种新的史学形态,也是一种新的史学方法。不少学者从历史学、社会学、人类学等学科领域对口述历史进行了论述,本文尝试以传播学为理论参照,分析口述历史的传播主体、传播媒介、传播内容和传播功能。 “Oral history” is a special communication activity of historians who use the means of communication such as verbal and audio recordings to obtain historical information from the oral narrator. Oral history is a new form of history, but also a new method of history. Many scholars have discussed oral history from the fields of history, sociology and anthropology. This paper attempts to analyze the oral history’s main body of communication, media, content and communication with the theory of communication as the theoretical reference.