A Linguistic Study On The Street Names Of Changzhi City

Place names is a vocabulary system of the language, from the perspective of linguistics,its voice, structure and choice of words all have their own unique characteristics. Meanwhile,Place names is a product of social history, is known as a "living fossil " and " card" of thecity, contains a wealth of historical and cultural significance, can perceive the city’s historyand culture. Street names as a part of the Place names have a common characteristic with thePlace names. In the system of the Place names, compared to the other types of names, Streetnames is relatively easy to change, it may reflect that language and social development issynchronized.This paper is generated in this inspired, put the Changzhi City’s streets as the researchcorpus, from the perspective of the sociolinguistics and structural linguistics to research thediachronic and synchronic changes of the Changzhi City’s Street names, in order to reveal therelationship between the streets naming and the historical and cultural of city and reveal thelanguage characteristics and laws of streets named, after that provide advice to renamed thestreet. This paper is divided into five chapters.The first chapter introduces the topic origin and the subject of the study, research purposeand meaning, the topic research present situation, the research methods and innovations.The second chapter collated and summarized the change situation of Changzhi City’sStreet names, summarized the change of its form, analysis its trends and characteristics ofdevelopment.The third chapter,from the linguistic point,analyzes the voice, structure and semanticfeatures of the Street names.The fourth chapter analyzes the influencing factors of street naming names, mainlyanalyzes the impact of objective factors, historical and cultural factors and psychosocialfactors.The fifth chapter point out the necessity of to regulate the Street names and analysis ofthe present situation and management of the Street names, find out the deficiencies and putforward Suggestions.