Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Rationale of the Present Research 1
1.1.1 Role and Significance of Cultural Information in ECLDs in Foreign Culture Learning 1
1.1.2 Present Situation of the Study ofCI in ECLDs 3
1.1.3 Cognitive Shift of Dictionary Research 5
1.1.4 Rise of Bilingual Corpora in the Compilation of ECLDs 6
1.2 Terminological Establishment 7
1.2.1 ECLD 7
1.2.2 CI 8
1.2.3 Presentation Model of CI 8
1.2.4 Chinese EFL Learners 8
1.3 Objectives of the Research 9
1.4 Methodology and Data of the Research 10
1.4.1 Methodology of the Research 10
1.4.2 Data of the Research 10
1.5 Organization of the Book 11
Chapter 2 Literature Review of CI in ECLDs 13
2.1 Significance of CI in ECLDs 13
2.2 Content of CI in ECLDs 15
2.3 Presentation Ways of CI 20
Chapter 3 Theoretical Consideration 28
3.1 Interaction of Semantics and Culture 28
3.1.1 Relationship of Language and Culture 28
3.1.2 Influence of Cultural Model on Semantics 30
3.1.3 Cultural Elements in Linguistic Units 34
3.2 CI in Foreign Language Teaching 40
3.3 CI in English-Chinese Learner's Dictionaries 46
3.4 Characteristics of CI in ECLDs 53
3.4.1 Abundance in knowledge 53
3.4.2 Systematicity 54
3.4.3 Country Specificity 55
3.4.4 Openness 55
3.5 Cultural Didactic Function of ECLDs 56
3.6 Summary 59
Chapter 4 Su rvey of the Presentation of CI in ECLDs 61
4.1 Presentation of CI of Cultural Words 62
4.1.1 Presentation of CI of Culture-Specific Words in ECLDs 62
4.1.1.1 Coverage of Culture-Specific Words in ECLDs 62
4.1.1.2 Presentation Ways of CI of Culture-Specific Words 70
4.1.2 Presentation of CI of Culture-Associative Words 77
4.1.2.1 Coverage of Culture-Associative Words in ECLDs 77
4.1.2.2 Presentation Ways of CI of Culture-Associative Words 81
4.1.3 Presentation of CI of Cultural Idioms 86
4.1.3.1 Coverage of Cultural Idioms in ECLDs 87
4.1.3.2 Presentation Ways of CI of Cultural Idioms 90
4.2 Presentation of CI of Illustrative Examples 94
4.3 Presentation of CI at the Textual Level 99
4.4 Reflections on Survey Results 102
Chapter 5 Presentation Principles of CI in ECLDs 103
5.1 Equivalence Principle 103
5.2 Communicative Principle 109
5.3 Cognitive Principle 111
5.3.1 Frame-Based Presentation of CI 112
5.3.2 Sense order of Cultural Words From the Cognitive Perspective 117
5.4 Systematic Principle 120
5.5 Country-Specific Principle 123
5.6 Corpus-Supported Principle 127
Chapter 6 Construction of a Presentation Model of CI 131
6.1 Overall Design of Presentation Model of CI 132
6.1.1 Content of CI 132
6.1.2 PresentationWays of CI 134
6.2 Presentation Model of CI of ECLDs 141
6.2.1 Presentation of CI in Macrostructure 141
6.2.2 Presentation of CI in the Microstructure 146
Chapter 7 Conclusion 150
7.1 Major Findings of the Present Research 150
7.2 Major Contributions of the Present Research 150
7.3 Limitations of the Research and Suggestions for Future Research 153
Appendices 155
References 170