Social Linguisics Analysis On Chinese Geographical Names

Toponymy is one of the subjects of linguistic. As an indispensable part of alanguage vocabulary system, it is a social and cultural phenomenon, which carries acertain degree of material and spiritual culture. It reflects politics economics, military,material life, values and customs. It is very meaningful to study the relationshipbetween the toponymy and culture and language. It’s an important topic of greatsignificance. The geographical name of Nanchang is a very important carrier whichcontains historical and brilliant culture.It’s also an important part of the city languageand culture. Exploration has a splendid theoretical and practical value.The article has five chapters, in addition to the conclusion. The introduction isabout the object of study, in terms of topic, methods of research, as well as the Stateof the toponymy Field in linguistics. The first chapter is about the connection ofNanchang place names with the Academicals history and related issues.Through the induction、 refining and the collation of relevant data onGeographical Names in Nanchang in chapters II to IV, it’s to analysis that theGeographical Names in Nanchang contains the language features and culturalsignificance, and then to examine the evolution of the process of Nanchang placenames from the dynamic of history.in order to clarify the close relationship betweenplace names and language and culture; Chapter V, is on the basis of discuss we have,geographical names standardization issues are analyzed, and the problems haveproposed a constructive solution.To sum up，this article refers to previous research results. With Theoreticalsociolinguistics, cultural linguistics, it analyses the names of this historical city. It fillsa gap in Nanchang place names in the field of linguistic research, has laid a goodfoundation for the future to further research in this area, importantly people from theclearer, deeper understanding of the place names contained in the national culturalsignificance this historical tradition of education, inherited cultural heritage has agreat significance.