【正文】 and beliefs, which will affect how we municate. When we speak of munication being systemic, other elements such as location, occasion, time and number of participants are also associated with the systemic nature of munication. CultureThe definition of culture is quite plicated. When anthropologists speak of culture, they do not mean the literary and artistic achievements and standards of cultured elites, but the total socially acquired lifestyle of a group people including patterned, repetitive ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. A mon view of culture is that of something learned, transmitted, passed down from one generation to the next, through human actions, often in the form of facetoface interaction, and, of course, through linguistic munication.Since culture is highly plex, it is not easy to give an exact definition, and there are many definitions have been suggested for culture, but none of them seems to be able to tell us everything about culture. The following definitions are just some of the wellknown ones.The first profound scientific definition of the concept “culture” was put forward by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor. According to him, culture is “that plex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, moral, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by a man as a member of society” (Tylor, E. B, 1924).Geert Hofstede views culture from a psychological perspective, defining it as “the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another”. He refers to culture as “software of the mind” (Geert Hofstede, 1997).For example, Sapir(1921) defines culture as “What a society does and thinks.” And in Hall’s opinion, Culture is “man’s medium。 instead, it’s a form of English which reflects certain social functions and is applied to the business contexts. In other words, it’s a standard form of English which involves all kinds of business activities and which is fit for mercial needs. Jones amp。關鍵詞：跨文化；交際能力；培養(yǎng)。AbstractWith the development of munication, transportation, and economic globalization, intercultural munication bees more and more frequent and international petition bee fiercer. Therefore, it is particularly important for Business English major students to strive to improve their professional business knowledge and the skills of crosscultural munication. Meanwhile, more and more theories on Intercultural Communication Competence have been introduced into China, and Business English teaching in China has begun to put emphasis on the cultivation of students’ ICC, but the results are far from satisfactory. Therefore, this thesis makes an attempt on the content and measures of the cultivation of students’ ICC in the learning of Business English.This paper is a good study of the basic content of ICC, the importance of ICC in Business English learning. It introduces the definitions and characteristics of munication, culture and intercultural munication, discusses the connotations and ponents of ICC. Based on the discussion on ICC, this paper explores the importance and necessity of ICC, and finally puts forward some strategies on how to cultivate ICC in the learning of business English. This paper is aimed to help people better understand the importance of intercultural munication, and to achieve their intention in business English munication by adopting some effective strategies to cultivate the ICC.Key words: intercultural；municative petence；cultivation；business English learningi摘 要隨著國際交往、交通以及世界經濟全球化的發(fā)展，各種跨文化交流活動的日益頻繁，國際競爭日趨激烈。最后對全文做出總結，希望本文的研究研究有助于人們在商務英語溝通中更好的理解和運用溝通策略來實現自己的意圖，幫助人們進行有效成功的交際。 Spitzberg, 1994)7) Strategic petenceStrategic petence is put forward by Canale and Swain. This ponent is posed of mastery of verbal and nonverbal municative strategies to pensate for breakdowns in munication due to limiting conditions in actual munication and enhance the effectiveness of munication. (Canale, 1983) Similarly, Stern interprets strategic petence as “the creativity of language used to bridge the gaps between linguistic and sociolinguistic systems and to reach municative goals”. It involves ability to use municative strategies to avoid munication breakdown.Chapter ThreeTHE CULTIVATION OF ICC IN BUSINESS ENGLISH LEARNING The Definition and Characteristics of Business EnglishWith the development of world economy and technology, English bees a sort of world language, and has a dominant position in such areas as business and science. “Business” means mercial activities that people are engaged in as a means of livelihood or profit or an entity in such activities. Generally speaking, business English refers to all the English language used in business activity. In China, business English is mainly used for foreign trade, which is also called Foreign Trade English. Since business English has a professional applicability in its special context, it has its own unique style, usage and format, which is different from other forms of English. It is not a separate form of language。 there is not one aspect of human life that is not touched and altered by culture. This means personality, how people express themselves (including shows of emotion), the way they think, how they move, how problems are solved, how their cities are planned and laid out, how transportation systems function and are organized, as well as how economic and government systems are put together and function.” At the same time, there are other scholars have given their definition of culture. For example, Samovar thinks that “A culture is a collection of beliefs, habits, living patterns, and behaviors which are held more or less in mon by people who occupy particular geographic areas.” And according to Davis, “Culture is a mental set of windows through which all of life is viewed. It varies from individual to individual within a society, but it shares important