APPLYING METHOD OF DETERMINING CULTURAL ELEMENTS AND MIRROR METHOD IN STATISTICS AND DECODE PLACE-NAME (A case study in the Southwestern region, Vietnam)

Abstract

Place-name is a complex research object because it contain the cultural, historical, linguistic and natural conditions of the land. Therefore, when approaching a thousands of place-names in a region, it is very difficult for researchers to classify and decode the origin of the place-names. The history of studying Vietnamese place-names show that, so far, the decryption of place-names by decoding each individual place-name, researchers have not paid attention to the relationship of place-names in a region. Thus, the study of place-names is quite sporadic, the study of place-names is not focusable and does not have a scientific basis to decode a series of place-names. By studying place-names of the Southwestern region, we have discovered method of determining elements of culture and method of mirroring in statistics and decode effectively place-names. As a result, we have classified and decoded the place-names systematically and scientifically, contributing to solving some practical and theoretical problems in researching place-names.