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1、LectureTwoCultureandCommunicationWhatisCulture?Warm-upQuestion:Giveyourowndefinitionofculture,andwriteitdown.SOMEDEFINITIONSCulturereferstothecumulativedepositofknowledge,experience,beliefs,values,attitudes,meanings,hierarchies,religion,notionsoftime,roles,spatialrelations,conceptsoftheu
2、niverse,andmaterialobjectsandpossessionsacquiredbyagroupofpeopleinthecourseofgenerationsthroughindividualandgroupstriving.Cultureisthesystemsofknowledgesharedbyarelativelylargegroupofpeople.Cultureiscommunication,communicationisculture.Cultureinitsbroadestsenseiscultivatedbehavior;thatis
3、thetotalityofaperson'slearned,accumulatedexperiencewhichissociallytransmitted,ormorebriefly,behaviorthroughsociallearning.Acultureisawayoflifeofagroupofpeople--thebehaviors,beliefs,values,andsymbolsthattheyaccept,generallywithoutthinkingaboutthem,andthatarepassedalongbycommunicationandim
4、itationfromonegenerationtothenext.Cultureissymboliccommunication.Someofitssymbolsincludeagroup'sskills,knowledge,attitudes,values,andmotives.Themeaningsofthesymbolsarelearnedanddeliberatelyperpetuatedinasocietythroughitsinstitutions.Cultureconsistsofpatterns,explicitandimplicit,ofandforb
5、ehavioracquiredandtransmittedbysymbols,constitutingthedistinctiveachievementofhumangroups,includingtheirembodimentsinartifacts;theessentialcoreofcultureconsistsoftraditionalideasandespeciallytheirattachedvalues;culturesystemsmay,ontheonehand,beconsideredasproductsofaction,ontheotherhand,
6、asconditioninginfluencesuponfurtheraction.Cultureisthesumoftotalofthelearnedbehaviorofagroupofpeoplethataregenerallyconsideredtobethetraditionofthatpeopleandaretransmittedfromgenerationtogeneration.Cultureisthesumoftotalofthelearnedbehaviorofagroupofpeoplethataregenerallyconsideredtobeth
7、etraditionofthatpeopleandaretransmittedfromgenerationtogeneration.MANIFESTATIONSOFCULTURECulturaldifferencesmanifestthemselvesindifferentwaysanddifferinglevelsofdepth.Symbolsrepresentthemostsuperficialandvaluesthedeepestmanifestationsofculture,withheroesandritualsinbetwee
