Analyzing And Reviewing Of Enshi Places Names In Different Areas

Geographical name is the product of human society development to a certain stage. Earier humans in order to survive, the life and the normal communication between people, requires a natural entity or location code, to identify and know, hence the name.Geographical names is the product of history and society, it is the essence of a regional history and culture, is a place of cultural carrier, is a place where a particular cultural symbol, is a kind of appellation of localism. Now more and more linguists see the importance of place names and the important meaning.This paper makes a comprehensive and systematic inspection and a rough study on the language phenomena and place names in Enshi and gives an initial analysis of culture connotation of place names in Enshi by using theory and methods of cultural linguistics.This paper contain six parts,and the mani contents are analyzed as follows:First chapter is an introduction part mainly introduction of Enshi places, separately from the general idea of the Enshi places, ethnic and historical landscape writing. Then the paper introduces the geographical in general,and expounds the purpose ang significance of research methods and corpora source.The second chapter analyzes the Ensh linguistic features.The paper uses mainly from syllable structure and tonal patterns to show the phonetic features and place names of Enshi;from the angle of wording tendencies and word-building to reveal the word characteristics of place names,from the angle of grammar to analyze the relationship of grammatical structure between words,and grammatical structure of proper nouns.It also briefly analyzes the rhetoric devices involved of place names in Enshi.The third chapter analyzes the ways of naming place names ou Enshi and its nomenclature from the geographical terrain,natural resources,historical events,myths and legends of cultural landscape,surname characters and ideals.The features of place names show the diversity of its place names of Enshi.fThe fourth chapter shows cultural connotations of the place names Enshi.It reflects the characteristics of regional culture,historical and cultural characteristics,social and cultural psychology,ect,which reveals rich cultural information.According to the problems existing in the management of Enshi places,chapter five puts forward some suggestions,only as reference.The sixth chapter is a summary for the full study of paper.