Chinese lexical abbreviations (CLAs) are of one significant and unique language phenomenon, the study of whose motivation is beneficial to reflect their relevant factors.

This research is to discuss and analyze the motivation, production and interpretation of Chinese lexical abbreviations so as to discover the cognitive basis for Chinese lexical abbreviation, thus providing a tentative answer to the question why Chinese words and phrases can be abbreviated.

So languages might be studied by using trichotomy, which has been shown in the study of Chinese phonetics, vocabulary, grammar and rhetoric, and has solved and will solve many problems that can t be solved by dichotomy .

This paper,based on the survey of the doctoral dissertations on Chinese language studies from 1983 to 2008 and in particular the State excellent ones from 1999 to 2008,discusses the current situation and development trend of Chinese language studies.

This paper discusses the meaning of both English and Chinese abbreviation and contrastively analyzes their word formation, rhetoric and translation.

This paper discusses the meaning of both English and Chinese abbreviation and analyzes their word formation,rhetoric,translation and tendency of development.

The paper mainly discusses the translating English abbreviations into Chinese and Chinese abbreviations into English, and free contention among the different schools of linguistic in translating is discussed as well.