Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Concise Dictionary of British and American Languages and Culture

Author: Lin Mingjin, Huo Jinkeng
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Publication Date: 2003-02-01
Features: This dictionary contains over 20,000 entries, focusing on introducing British and American cultural knowledge that helps readers enhance their cultural awareness and master cross-cultural communication skills. It is primarily intended for foreign affairs and translation professionals, university students, and other English enthusiasts. The dictionary includes many new terms not yet covered in general language dictionaries and can be used alongside standard bilingual dictionaries to supplement their shortcomings. The main sources of data for this dictionary are fourfold: 1) published dictionaries and encyclopedias related to British and American culture; 2) specialized books on cross-cultural communication, language and culture, and other fields; 3) British and American newspapers and magazines; 4) research papers by domestic and foreign scholars in the field of British and American culture. The English headwords in this dictionary are arranged alphabetically, and a cross-reference system is provided with "see" to indicate mutual references. The dictionary does not provide phonetic transcriptions for the entries, nor does it mark the part of speech for nouns, though the nature of proper nouns is reflected in the definitions.，. Additionally, the appendices are designed to systematically summarize the cultural knowledge covered in the main text, thereby enhancing the dictionary's utility. The dictionary pays attention to collecting new materials and is intended for new cultural knowledge.