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CHAPTER ONE   INTRODUCTION 

1.1 Background of the Present Study 
Domestic-oriented  Chinese-English  dictionaries  (CEDs)  are  important  tools  for Chinese  EFL  learners  to  write  English  articles  or  do  Chinese-English  translation. However, a majority of users are not satisfied with the current CEDs (Cui Yumei 2006; Hu  Wenfei  2013).  The  reason  is  that  current  CEDs,  heavily  influenced  by  the traditional view that the essence of bilingual dictionaries is to seek equivalents in target languages (Zgusta 1971: 319; Svensén 2009: 257; Al-Kasimi 1983: 63; Li Ergang 2006; Li  Ming  and  Zhou  Jinghua  2002;  Li  Kai  1990),  only  list  several  synonymous equivalents,  without  any  further  information  for  usage  and  semantic  discrimination, which may make users feel puzzled and choose a wrong equivalent. Another reason is that current CEDs are not users-oriented. Most of the current CEDs claim that they are both domestic-oriented and foreign-oriented. However,  domestic-oriented CEDs  aim to  help  Chinese  EFL  learners  improve  their  English  proficiency  while foreign-oriented CEDs aim to help foreigners learn Chinese. In other words, they have different  aims  and  focus.  Domestic-oriented  CEDs  should  put  their  emphasis  on English while foreign-oriented CEDs on Chinese. For domestic-oriented CEDs, usage information  and  semantic  discrimination  should  be  provided  for  English  equivalents instead of Chinese headwords.  Up  till  now,  some  researches  on  how  to  improve  current  CEDs  have  been conducted,  mainly  focusing  on  the  conceptual  equivalence  between  the  source language  and  the  target  language.  Even  though  they  are  enlightening,  there  are  still some deficiencies:  The knowledge about the essence of CEDs’ definition is insufficient. Some researches  were  still  limited  to  the  traditional  equivalence  view.  They  regarded conceptual  equivalence  between  the  source  language  and  the  target  language  as  the ultimate aim of CEDs while ignoring the multi dimensions of definitions. 
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1.2 Research Objective and Research Issues  
The ultimate goal of the thesis is to build a multidimensional definition model for SVEs based on constructions. With  the  ultimate  goal  mentioned  above,  the following research issues  will  be studied. 1.2 Research Objective and Research Issues  The ultimate goal of the thesis is to build a multidimensional definition model for SVEs based on constructions. With  the  ultimate  goal  mentioned  above,  the following research issues  will  be studied. 
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