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The Language And Culture Research About Geographical Names Of Linfen

Posted on:2014-02-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z L LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330398451281Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Geographical names is the product of history and society; they aresocio-cultural pattern with high practicality. They are not only thewitness of history and culture collection, but also a vividmanifestation of the spiritual civilization. Although the geographicalnames carry such a rich culture, they don’t get much concern. Tocompensate for the lack of linguistic research on Linfen geographicalnames, the article carries out on the basis of practical field surveyand collects relevant literature. Starting from the author’s hometown-the administrative division names of Linfen City, ShanxiProvince, based on3129geographical names of Linfen city, the articledoes a System research and analysis from a linguistics point of viewand cultural horizons of the geographical names of Linfen. The articledoes a study from two levels of language features and culturalconnotation of the geographical names of Linfen to explore thelanguage features and the named types,at the same time reveals therelationship between geographical names and culture so as toprovide information and reference mining Linfen cultural connotationof the geographical names and toponymy.This article takes a number of statistical analysis methods to analyze the linguistic features of the geographical names in Linfen.After a lot of statistics, it is showed that the two-syllablegeographical names are the majority of Linfen geographical names,three-syllable and four-syllable geographical names as a supplementonly make up small amounts, geographical names mainly use leveltone word. Five account for a large proportion of the specific form ofthe two structures in the form of “Special name” type and “Specialname+common name”. In the all geographical names of Linfen city,the geographical names which use prejudiced type of word formationmake up the majority. The rhetoric used in the geographical names isshowing diversification.On the basis of the large corpus fact, these articles divided intodescriptive geographical names, the narrative geographical namesand sustenance emotions, expressing willingness geographicalnames according to the naming of Linfen geographical names. Duringthe classification of geographical names, reveals the reason tonaming these geographical. Overview of Linfen geographical nameswith a better understanding of, and at the same time, do the initialgroundwork for geographical names and cultural relations.The geographical name has rich cultural connotations. Thisarticle reveals the close relationship of geographical names andcultural according to the five aspects, terrain article from Linfengeographical names reflect the cultural, Dialect Culture, TerrainCulture, historical cultural, political cultural, social and psychologicalcultural. But also reflects the Linfen the geographical Names cultureis rich and colorful.The geographical name has a strong practical, at the same time it has a very high cultural value. I believe that the toponymic workersfrom the Standardization of Geographical Names Management tostart give full play to the role of geographical names as well as raisingawareness, strengthening publicity, give full play to its cultural role.
Keywords/Search Tags:Geographical names, Linguistics, Language features, Named type, Cultural connotation
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