本书对相关的心理语言学理论问题进行了讨论：多义词以及第二语言词汇表征。多义词表征的研究结果对于当今英语学习者词典的创新做法提供了心理依据并对于其改进有所启示。各种第二语言词汇心理表征观点均认可共享的概念节点以及独立表征的词形节点，这为本课题的形—概念映射框架提供了理论支持。本书进而依据形—概念映射框架对双解词典进行了两方面的深入研究：形—概念映射与双解词典释义部分的处理模型，以及从心理语言学角度探讨双解词典对学习者的适用性。本书最后选取两个词典编纂项目进行了个案研究：《牛津汉语词典》和《大中华汉英大词典》，说明了当代语言学理论对现代词典学以及词典编纂的影响。

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前言

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Introduction

Chapter Ⅰ Implications of a Developmental Model of Polysemous Representation for Polysemous Entry Treatment

0.Introduction： the dictionary and the mind

1.Polysemy

2.Sense ordering

3.Competing views about polysemous representation

4.A developmental model of polysemous representation

5.Implications for polysemous entry and homonym treatment in the dictionary

6.Conclusion

Chapter Ⅱ Conceptual Representation for Words in a Second Language

0.Introduction

1.The word association model

2.The concept mediation model

3.The mixed model

4.The revised hierarchical model

5.The distributed feature model

6.Conclusion

Chapter Ⅲ Constructing Models of the Definition and Its Counterpart (Equivalent or Translation) in the Bilingualized Dictionary

0.Introduction

1.Treatment of equivalents

2.Treatment of culturebound words

3.Treatment of partial equivalents

4.Conclusion

Chapter Ⅳ Why the Bilingualized? — A Discussion Based on the Analysis of the EFL Learners Mental Representation of Conscience and Liangxin (良心)

0.Introduction

1.The L2 learners mental representation of abstract concepts and chunks

2.The case of conscience

3.Treatment of the definition

4.Treatment of the example

5.Conclusion

Chapter Ⅴ New Trends in Bilingual Dictionary Compilation： On the Compilation of the Oxford Chinese Dictionary

0.Introduction

1.A conceptual framework

2.Lexicalization： neologism and compounds

3.Lexical units： phrasal verbs and typical expressions

4.Dictionary Production System (hereafter DPS)： online dictionary compilation

5.Conclusion

Chapter Ⅵ FormConcept Mapping and the Organization of Semantic and Contextual Information in the Greater China ChineseEnglish Dictionary： A Case Study

0.Introduction

1.Traditional presentation of the dictionary entry

2.Organizing meanings

3.Psychological coherence

4.Combination of approaches to ordering meanings：the GCCE practice

5.Contextual information

6.Conclusion： lexicography， semantics， and the mental lexicon

Chapter Ⅶ Summary

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