英汉语言与文化对比最新版中西文化比较.ppt

Lines and Circles:A Contrastive Study of Western and Chinese Cultures What is culture? Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. -- Edward Tylor (1871) (a British anthropologist) What is culture? Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiment in artifacts; the essential core of culture consists