This book is a collection of papers from the cutting-edge academic forums (2002-2013) held by Beijing Language Association, covering various aspects of linguistics, including phonetics, grammar, vocabulary, language teaching, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, minority languages, dialects, cognitive linguistics, language testing, etc. The studies range from the perspective of classical Chinese to that of modern Chinese Mandarin, from synchronic observations and descriptions to diachronic explanations and analyses. The book reflects the dynamics and trends of linguistic research and concerns both individual microscopic language phenomena and macroscopic language planning, both internal linguistic phenomena and relations between language and society, both Chinese linguistics and linguistics in a neighboring and global context. 

Beijing Language Association, founded on June 18th, 1980, is an organization directly under Beijing Federation of Social Science Circles. Its current chairperson is Professor Cui Xiliang, the President of Beijing Language and Culture University. Divisions under the Association include the Branch of Linguistic Theories, Branch of Language Modernization, Branch of Recitation Research, Branch of Applied Linguistics, Branch of Language and Literature, Branch of Classical Chinese, Branch of Child Language and Branch of Scientific Language, with a total of 760 members.