Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Department of English and Linguistics,Kermanshah Branch,Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah,Iran zabikomijan28@yahoo.com
2 Maryam S. Ghiasian Associate Professor Department of language and linguistics Payame Noor University
Abstract
In knowing the culture and language of any place, the study of place names is very important. In this research, an attempt has been made to examine the patterns of place names in Central Province based on the survey of national place names conducted in Australia. The theoretical approach in the concept of place names of this survey is based on the article of Tenet and Blair (2021). Surveying national place names in Australia is based on three key elements: identification, documentation and interpretation. The purpose of identifying a place name is to determine its linguistic form, the type of geographical feature (urban, plain, field, etc.) and its geographical location (latitude and longitude). The statistical sample in the current research is based on 225 place names of settlements in Central Province, which were selected from the statistical population of 1394 of the place names of settlements in Central Province for the field study of place names.The findings of the research show that the place names of the settlements in the central province were chosen based on the following factors: linguistic dispersion, population density, distance and historical background of the settlements. The images of each settlement are roughly determined based on 7 descriptive, participatory, naming, event, evaluation, copy and innovation images. The results show that the descriptive image has the highest percentage with 61.08% and includes 137 It is named, and then there are other patterns in the order: Participatory pattern (linking) with 47 placenames in the limit of 20.85%, Naming pattern with 20 placenames in about 9.79%, Event pattern with 18 placenames in about 7.84 percent, the evaluation model with a placeholder of about 0.44. The images of copying and innovation are without place names.Descriptive image has the highest percentage. Reviewing and analyzing the place names of the central province with global concepts, we have answered the classification questions according to the Excel table. The local category has the largest number and percentage of local place names in the descriptive image. In the central province, the investigation and biography of the location and motivation of the name givers is descriptive.
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