A Sociolinguistic Study Of The Name Of Haicheng Village

Place names are closely associated with human activities.Place names evolve as the evolution of sociocultural activities.Affected by some social factors,great achievements are obtained on the study of place names in China,while there is still broad development space for the study of specific village names.From the perspective of social linguistics,this paper systematically analyzes the natural village names of Haicheng area,Liaoning province,which has great linguistic and toponymy values and sociocultural values.There are 21 towns,4 street offices and 1 economic development zone in Haicheng and there are totally 1265 villages in these areas.Taking 1265 village names as the object of the research,this paper explains the origin of village name in Haicheng,the naming characteristics and the sociocultural situation in the course of evolution by consulting the chronicles,annuals and gazetteer of Haicheng.In addition,the relationship between place names and social culture is presented systematically and comprehensively.This paper is divided into five parts,including the introduction and conclusion.In the introduction,the geographical conditions,the administrative division profiles of Haicheng and the research status,the research significance,the research methods of some related geographical names are expounded.The first chapter amply introduces the linguistic features of village names in Haicheng.From the perspective of speech sounds,this paper analyzes the pronunciation,vocabulary and rhetoric features of the village names,finding that these names has retained the ancient sound,three syllables and the level tones are in the majority at the phonetic level,while the words are composed by the combination of the proper nouns and common nouns.Moreover,metaphor,homophony,metonymy,allusion are taken at the level of rhetoric.The second chapter elaborates the social culture features of Haicheng according to a lot of researches on the village names,and analyzes the relations between these place names and local geographical face,historical facts,economic development,religious beliefs.The social development situation at that time is also represented in this chapter.The third chapter mainly studies the social psychology which is reflected by the place names.From the perspective of the word formation,the use of special nouns and general nouns is researched,discovering that village names are connected closely with racial beliefs,direction psychology and the pursuit of happiness.At the last part of the thesis,the main idea is presented and the writing outline iscombed.Meanwhile the innovations and disadvantages are also pointed out.