A Sociolinguistic Analysis Of Zhangjiachuan Placenames

As common language phenomena,Place name is one of the important contents of language research.Zhangjiachuan is a minority-inhabited areas.With deep historical and cultural background,the geographical names of it bear valuable research significance in the aspect of language,society and culture.The full text is divided into six parts.The first chapter analyzes the definition and characteristics of place names,Combs the predecessors' research results,puts forward the research content,method and significance of the article and introduces the basic information of Zhangjiachuan.The second chapter discusses the linguistic features of place names from the perspectives of vocabulary and rhetoric.In terms of vocabulary,the paper sums up the surnames,orientation and sequence in the name structure as well as other lexical words and naming combination.It also analyzes the two cases of naming to the proper name.In addition,The paper sums up geographical and humanitic nouns through the naming classified collection classification analysis,which lexical structure analysis by dividing the specialized nouns into three major categories of the simple word,the compound word and the derivation phrase;In the aspect of localizer,The paper shows the characteristics of "separation of elegance and vulgarity".There is not only the reservation of special nouns of locality but also some embodiment of local style.The rhetoric is the most popular aesthetic demonstration of place names,among which metaphors,metonymy,allusions and homophonic rhetoric are more common in place names,especially metonymy and allusions.The third chapter discusses the reasons of place naming through two aspects of the nature and the humanity and eight perspectives of the landform,the hydrology,the property,the direction,the politics,the clan,the historical legend and the Totem worship..Combining history,anthropology,geography and other disciplines,the fourth chapter analyzes the geographical,historical,social,ethnic,religious and cultural connotations of geographical names.The fifth chapter is the consideration about the standardization improvement of geographical Names.The sixth chapter is the summary of the research results of Zhangjiachuan place names.