【正文】 l ments and thoughtful assistance throughout the writing of the paper, which I greatly appreciate. I also thank my friends, Li Qi, Zhou Meng, Gao Tian, Zhang Bingjie for providing me with invaluable academic advice and encouragement. I am grateful to them for being my friends and academic consultants in the past two years. Additionally, my sincere appreciation goes to Ms. He, a very knowledgeable teacher, who embraced my interdisciplinary research idea at its initial stage. In one word, I would like to thank all those who have ever helped me. At last, I appreciate all loving considerations from my beloved family. I also owe my sincere gratitude to my friends and my fellow classmates who have given me their warm help and precious time to work out my problems during the tough course of the thesis. II Abstract With the development of global economy, intercultural munication bees increasingly significant and frequent today. China, as a member of WTO, gets involved in more munications with other countries. More talents are in great need for China, who have a good mand of English knowledge and intercultural munication petence as well to adapt to international petition. Thus students majoring in Business English are faced with both great opportunities and challenges. That is to say, they should not only make it clear what the definition of culture and intercultural munication is, but realize the strategy for cultivating intercultural munication petence in study. Armed with these essential petences, we can overe culture barriers and reduce culture conflicts on international business occasions. Strengthening the development of intercultural munication petence contributes to successful international business munications. In this thesis, by analyzing the importance and necessity of business munication from a global perspective, the present author aims to help the Business English learners to establish the awareness of intercultural munication, in order to cultivate the strategies of intercultural munication and improve their munication petence. Key words: culture。 Business English III 內 容 摘 要 如今，經濟全球化使跨文化交流日趨重要，日益頻繁。為適應國際競爭的需要，中國需要既掌握了大量英語專業(yè)知識，又具備跨文化交際能力的復合型人才。換言之，對商務英語專業(yè)學生的培養(yǎng)不僅應該讓其了解什么是文化，什么是跨文化交流；更應該使之明白如何在學習中培養(yǎng)跨文化交際能力的策略。 加強跨文化交際能力的培養(yǎng)有 助于國際商務交際的成功開展。 關鍵詞： 文化；語言；跨文化交際能力；商務英語 Contents Acknowlegements ................................................................................................................ I Abstract................................................................................................................................II 內 容 摘 要 ..................................................................................................................... III 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 1 2 The Background of Intercultural Communication............................................................ 2 The Definition of Culture ......................................................................................... 2 The Definition of Intercultural Communication ...................................................... 2 3 Intercultural Communication in Business English Learning............................................ 3 The Background of Business English ...................................................................... 3 The Necessity of Cultivating Intercultural Communication Competence in Business English Learning............................................................................................. 4 An Inevitable Requirement of Economic Globalization ................................... 4 A Need for a Bridge over Culture Barriers ....................................................... 5 4 The Cultivation Strategies of Intercultural Communication Competence in Business English Learning ............................................................................................................ 6 To Cultivate Students’ Intercultural Awareness ....................................................... 6 To Compare Cultural Differences ..................................................................... 7 To Develop Different Thinking Patterns ........................................................... 8 To Develop Cultureoriented Course in Business English Learning ....................... 8 To Take Advantages of Online Materials ................................................................. 9 5 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................... 10 References ......................................................................................................................... 11 關于畢業(yè)論文原創(chuàng)性的聲明 .............................................................................................. i 1 1 Introduction In the 21st century, with the development of global economy, people are being increasingly interconnected with the whole world, and need to understand the people whose background is quite different from their own. To municate effectively with people from different cultures needs to cultivate people’s intercultural munication petence. In China, however, traditional teachingmode in Business English focuses on students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills rather than intercultural munication petence. A lot of students may wonder why they should cultivate munication petence. For students majoring in Business English, they are supposed to realize that living in a global village and facing the multicultural societies, to interact with people from different cultures is not only an issue faced by the diplomats, expatriates and int