PLACE-NAMING OF TOURISM DESTINATIONS IN JAWA BARAT: A TOPONYMY STUDY

Eva Tuckyta Sari Sujatna,Kasno Pamungkas,Heriyanto Heriyanto

doi:10.18769/ijasos.78535

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Abstract

The research on place-naming has been the focus of numerous studies. This research tries to explore the place-naming of tourism destinations in Jawa Barat. The place-naming of tourism destinations in Jawa Barat discussed in this article relates to their types and their processes morphologically. It can be shown that there are three types of place naming of tourism destination in Jawa Barat adapted from eleven Nash’s classifications, the present writers found single proper noun, two (generic noun + proper noun) and three (generic noun + generic noun + proper noun) nouns, and generic noun + adjective. Besides the types adapted from Nash classifications (2015), the present writers also classify their morphological processes relating to Sujatna et al. (2016). The first process is acronym, the second is blending, the third process is coinage, the fourth process is borrowing, and the last type of process is a compounding. Keywords : place-naming, morphological processes, Jawa Barat, acronym, blending, coinage, compounding, borrowing,

Highlights

Many researchers do their research on place-naming
Relating to the four previous researchers, the present writers try to figure out the place-naming of tourism destinations in Jawa Barat relating to types of the place naming and the morphological processes (Sujatna, 2016)
The place naming of tourism destination in Jawa Barat are classified into three types: firstly, can be translatable and literally descriptive, secondly, to be the significant markers of the intimate relationship between people and territory, thirdly, are potential to locate and bind people both geographically and historically

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Using the brochures of the tourism destinations in Jawa Barat, the present writers try to collect all the placenaming of tourism destinations in Jawa Barat. The present writers try to classify the place-naming relating to the forms and this article analyses the place-naming of the tourism destinations in Jawa Barat. In Merriam-Webster dictionary, toponymy is the place-names of a region or language or especially the etymological study of them. 4. Adjective + noun is productive (e.g. Middlegate (monolexemes), Big House, Rocky Point, New Ground, Bloody Bridge (bilexemes)). 5. Adjective + noun + noun is productive, e.g. New Farm West. 6. Definite article + adjective (+ generic noun) is productive, e.g. The Big Flat. 7. Adjective + (generic) noun is productive, e.g. Little Cascade, Fat Gulley. 8. (Proper) noun + possessive + noun is productive, e.g. Sheres Gulley, Clitchers Corner, Burns Farm, Collins Head, Steels Point. Many different points of view can be analyzed to the data obtained as the present writers did. Many different points of view can be analyzed to the data obtained as the present writers did. Sujatna, et al (2016: 158-162) had delivered their paper in 3rd International Conference on Education and Social Sciences and it had been published in the proceeding titled “The Morphological

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