Meaning Of Place Names Research Articles

Memory, the City, and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe: The Ghosts of Others

Memory, the City, and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe: The Ghosts of Others

Reflections on the Politics of Place (Re)-Naming: Decolonisation, the Collapse of Totalitarian Regimes, and Government Changes

Previous research on toponymy analyses the roots and meanings of place names. However, the advent of the Critical Toponymy Theory has added a new dimension to the study of toponymy, particularly, focusing on the politics of naming. Theorists have

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To create figurativeness in literary style such semantic means of expression as synonyms, antonyms and homonyms are widely used. In the Azerbaijani and English literary texts the semantic meaning of toponyms is expressed in two ways: by using their paraphrased equivalents and by using their new and archaic forms. The synonymous toponyms in literature are used to avoid repetition of one and the same word and give the reader certain information about the toponym. If it is necessary to give imagery in the artistic style, in addition to the semantic shades of toponyms, various phonetic, grammatical and lexical means are also used. Of course, this stylistic event does not happen by itself. This is what arises from the differences in the approaches of writers and poets to words, or rather, toponyms. Apparently, in both the Azerbaijani and English literary style, writers could not but take into account the communicativeness created by the lexical meaning of toponyms as units of language, and the stylistic nuances expressed by their internal semantics. The relevance of this article is defined by the comparative analysis of the semantic meaning of place names on the basis of concrete material of the two languages of different systems (Azerbaijani and English). The aim of the research is to define the semantic means of expression of the place names used within the literary text. The subject of the research is to analyze the function of the place names in the literary texts of the two languages of different systems. The object of the research is the real and fictitious place names used by the Azerbaijani and English writers. In the work the complex technique of investigation is applied and such methods as descriptive, comparative, contextual, stylistic, etc. are used. The Azerbaijani and English literary texts and also scientific literature on onomastic, stylistics and lexicology have been the sources of the research. The results of the work can be applied when teaching special courses, holding seminars, writing research papers and dissertations.

A kognitív térkép és a névhasználat

The cognitive map and the use of names
 In this paper, the author attempts to provide a general summary of the relationship between the cognitive map and spatial concepts on the one hand, and between the onomasticon related to the cognitive map and discourses about space on the other hand, focusing on universal as well as culturally specific features. To this end, the author summarizes and interprets all the relevant results of national and international research from the areas of geography, socio-geography, anthropology, psychology, socio-onomastics and cognitive linguistics. Space is made up of different places and their relationships, which are represented on the cognitive map. At the same time, the development of the cognitive map is governed by many factors. In addition to one’s own experiences of the geographical environment. A significant proportion of geographic knowledge also results from different sources or from a combination of sources. In this context, the linguistic-cultural background also influences the individual’s geographical concepts and spatial cognition. At the same time, there are general features, organizing principles in spatial cognition resulting from the mechanisms of cognition, which influence the development of the mental map and name-giving practices as well. A good example is that one can only define a place in relation to another place, and this relation is often reflected in place names. Closely connected to this, is the view of centre-periphery relations in space, which is often manifested in discourse about places and sometimes in the meanings of place names, as well. The connotative meaning attached to words can also be mentioned as a common feature, and this is present both in the organization of discourse about space and in place names. These interrelated principles may apply in different ways to different areas, communities and cultures.

The Types and Meanings of Place Names on the Old Maps in the Late Joseon Dynasty: the Case of Bupyeong

The Types and Meanings of Place Names on the Old Maps in the Late Joseon Dynasty: the Case of Bupyeong

The Types and Meanings of Place-Names on the Old Mapsin the Late Joseon Dynasty – The Case of Daejeon –

최근 전국의 여러 지자체에서 지역의 역사문화 콘텐츠 확보나 정체성 구성 등과 관련해 지명의 역사적 장소성에 주목하는 흐름이 확산되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 조선 후기 제작된 현 대전 지역 관련 고지도를 중심으로 지도상에 재현된 장소 지명이나 경관의 명칭 등에 대한 역사지리적 접근을 시도하였다. 대전 지역은 조선후기 충청도의 회덕현(懷德縣)·진잠현(鎭岑縣) 그리고 공주목(公州牧) 동남부 등 세 지역으로 구성되어 있었기에 이들 군·현의 고지도 상 지명을 총 정리하여 그 유형을 분류하고 필요한 경우 의미 읽기를 시도하였다. 군·현 단위 수준의 고지도 상 지명은 산과 물(水)로 대변되는 자연지명, 행정지명, 군·현의 중심지였던 읍치 관련 지명, 그 외 전통적 공간인식체계인 풍수 관련 지명과 지역사회의 주요한 역사문화경관 지명 등이 주종을 이루었다. 본 연구와 같은 미시적 수준의 역사지리적 지명연구가 타 지역에도 확장되기를 기대한다.In this study, I attempted a historical geographical approach to the place names and landscape names represented on the old maps produced in the late Joseon Dynasty, focusing on the present Daejeon City. The Daejeon area consisted of three districts of Chungcheong Province, namely Hoedeok, Jinjam, and the eastern south of Gongju, in the late Joseon Dynasty. Firstly, I examined the place names and landscape names on the old maps of these areas, and then summed up those names to classify several types of them. And I tried to read the meanings of some names, if necessary, to understand the social relationships in regional communities and the traditional environmental epistemology. As a result, I could identify the several types of the place names and landscape names: natural names related to mountains and streams, names of administrative areas, eupchi-related names which constructed the center of the county, fengshui-related names reflecting the traditional environmental perspectives, and landscape names with the major history and culture of the regional communities. In the near future, it is expected that this kind of the historical geographical approach to the place names at the micro level will extend to other regions.

The Meaning of Place Names and Folklore Knowledge Seen in the Lyrics of <Women Divers’ Rowing Songs

This study aims to look at in what meaning place names seen in the lyrics of <Women Divers’ Rowing Songs> are understood by women divers as a singer from the literary geography viewpoints, and then explore folklore knowledge seen in the lyrics from the aspect of field research. This study examined place names seen in the lyrics of <Women Divers’ Rowing Songs> by dividing them into the present meaning, which the general public recognizes, and the meaning at that time that Jeju women divers recognize. The latter includes the meaning that provides information such as starting points, passages, migratory routes, the destination of leaving hometown, and oceanic and geographical information. Place names of the sea routes by which Jeju women divers went to the destination of leaving hometown as well as island and sea names indicate their radius of action, and the sea was their valuable source of living. The place names of areas where women divers went out into the sea for diving after leaving hometown were related to the conditions of the sea sites and the kinds of marine products they caught. Folklore knowledge seen in <Women Divers’ Rowing Songs> includes recognizing of the habitats of marine products, the flow of tidal currents, etc. Folklore knowledge on the habitats of sea mustard, agar, and Ecklonia cava is piled up through repeated diving experiences. They also used tidal currents when they swam to or took and rowed a sail boat to the diving working place.

&lt;em&gt;Dindsenchas&lt;/em&gt;, Mr Deasy, and the nightmare of partition in &lt;em&gt;Ulysses&lt;/em&gt;

&lt;em&gt;Dindsenchas&lt;/em&gt;, Mr Deasy, and the nightmare of partition in &lt;em&gt;Ulysses&lt;/em&gt;

Névváltozási jelenségek Zoboralja helyneveiben (Menyhe és Zsére névanyaga alapján)

Place names, including microtoponyms – similarly to other linguistic signs – can perform different changes as a result of external (non linguistic) or internal (linguistic) reasons. These changes might affect the form as well as the meaning of place names; furthermore, in Hungarian inhabited regions beyond the present borders of Hungary, place names frequently disappear because of the intense assimilation. This paper compares the historical place names from the second half of the 19th century to those used today in two neighbouring settlements of Zoboralja, which belong to two significantly different regions. The place names have changed in different ways as a result of the different situation and divergent development of the villages. In the isolated Menyhe, 32% of place names have remained unchanged. In Zsére, 34% of historical place names have disappeared or have been substituted by different names. Because of its situation, the latter settlement is more exposed to changes initiated by external factors; as a result, old name forms are less frequently preserved. Place names in both settlements are affected by internal, intralinguistic changes: the plural marker -k establishes many place names; morphologic reduction in the place names of Zsére indicates linguistic efficiency; changes of the syntactic structure can only be observed in Zsére.

Views on cultic place-names in Denmark: a review of research

Although interest has long been shown in the meaning of place-names, place-name research as a methodical study has only a comparatively short history. A favourite topic for several authors has been to describe the history of an area on the basis of its place-names. From among all the names in the district, they would select now one and now another. Sometimes they would add a little non-onomastic source material and gradually they would reconstruct — on an exceptionally fragile foundation — a picture of the cultic past of the region. However, Danish place-names containing pre-Christian elements, in spite of their small number, may form an important source of information about the history of religion.

The Role of Folk Legends in Place-Name Research

IN SPITE OF THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS between two relatively new disciplines of folkloristics and onomastics, folklorists as well as onomatologists have generally overlooked contributions can make to place-name research. The main reason has been neglected in place-name scholarship is that place-name studies have so far been largely exercises in lexicography. That is, place-name scholar has been mainly interested in spelling, pronunciation, origin, and meaning of place names as words, not as names that function regardless of what they mean. Consequently, onomatologists have used only if it helped explain linguistic changes or meanings of names. Too often, though, place-name researchers have had virtually no use at all for folklore. As Robert S. Rudolph says, investigator of place names seeks to illuminate true origins obscured by folk etymologies.' Rudolph's view is typical of that of most linguists, historians, and geographers who have worked with place names. Unlike folklorist, these investigators of names have been interested in factual rather than imaginative aspects of place naming, in hard data rather than cultural significance of names. Since term folklore is generally equated in popular usage with what is false, place-name students seeking truth about names usually do not knowingly report folklore. Just as onomatologists have neglected folklore, folklorists have neglected names. Jan Brunvand, although he has studied names, points out that, strictly speaking, study of names falls into realm of onomastics, not folkloristics, and adds that the naming that a folklorist studies is that which is traditional and which appears in context of other folklore.2 This attitude, typical of many folklorists, is understandable since place-name scholars have been interested primarily in compiling lexica. In United States, investigating origin and meaning of names is largely a matter of simple inquiry into historical records, not a matter of folkloristic research and analysis. The folklorist is interested in facts of

On Etymologizing Indian Place-Names

LERE IS A WIDE-SPREAD and a popular interest in what is called origin of the of place-names. Evidence of such interest is not hard to find: historical works, and guide-books, frequently afford us, with no reservations, confident statement: name, in X language, means such-and-such. Such statements are commonly made despite absence of any adequate grammar or dictionary of language from \vhich name in question is supposed to be derived. And even when such de-' scriptions are available (which is rarely enough), no mention is ordinarily made of fact that meaning of place names is as often as not quite unknown to speakers of language involved, that word in question is a name. To those who have concerned themselves with study of placenames in western Europe, where documentation is extensive and history a long one, it is a matter of common knowledge that names of places frequently preserve words and constructions which have otherwise disappeared from language; names survive only as names. It would be simple to cite numerous instances of this sort of thing in field of English place-names. The apparent confidence, therefore, with which statement is made that 'Chicago' or 'Kentucky', or 'Wisconsin' means suchand-such, ought to arouse our suspicions. One has impression that compilers of place-name lexica, themselves without knowledge of languages involved, offer us, without a word of caution, meanings which have no basis other than that of popular tradition. Sins of this nature are especially common in North America, where an interest is found among present occupiers of land for names of country they live in which derive from Indian languages. Many of these Indian languages have become

On the Street-names in Batavia and the Meaning of Place-names in Java

From the standpoint of urban geography, Batavia, the colonial city in the tropic, includes various interesting problems. Among them, the distribution of street-names of the city is rather unique. Besides many names originated from things Netherlands, name-groups due to natural or historical facts in Indonesia are more often given as street-names. Among them, we can distinguish islands, flora or fauna in Indonesia, volcanoes or rivers in Java, places in Sumatra, personal names of ancient Javanese Kingdom or various gods of Hindu religion. As mostly these name-groups are given collectively to various parts of the city, together with the special atmosphere which every parts creates, they are playing a big role on the formation of geographical pattern of the city.This synthetic expression of natural and historical characteristics in whole Indonesia seems especially suitable, because the city is the capital of the archipelago. By the way, when we investigate about the meaning of place-names in Java, we know the greater majority is occupied by the names originated from volcanoes, rivers, fauna and flora of the island. Here, where the natural strength is powerful, it seems quite natural, too.

Chinese Place Names and the Appreciation of Geographic Realities

T HE fascination of maps derives not a little from the language spoken by their cover of place names. Many of these have grown out of the everyday life and experiences of the inhabitants. Mixed in among these lowly native names may be regional names supplied by explorers, geographic boards, or planning commissions, by historical events or changing political boundaries. There are the recurring names that evidence migration of a people or a culture; and there are the place names taken by a people of one culture from the people of another, such as the Indian and Spanish names throughout much of North America. World maps prepared for use within a given country misrepresent in some degree the place names of countries of other speech. When different alphabets are involved, the misrepresentation is magnified; and when a different system of language is used, as in China, the distortion puts the cultural and geographic realities completely beyond the grasp of the layman. Only when one refers to a map on which place names are given in Chinese can there be surety of comprehension of the significance of the names. Although a student well educated in the language and culture of a given country can usually interpret the meaning of place names in that language with fair accuracy, there must be in all countries cases in which a purely linguistic interpretation of a name leads to mistakes. Moreover, in many languages the process of setting down the written form of a name by someone unfamiliar with it when spoken often results in error. When once committed to official records or maps, a wrongly transcribed name is frequently retained, much to the annoyance of the local populace, who may be required to accept the error for common usage. In the writings on China in Occidental languages few efforts have been made to clarify the complicated situation regarding place names. This study will attempt to throw light on certain questions of Chinese place names and their interpretation. Because of limitations of space the discussion will be confined to names of cultural features-settlements and political divisions.

The Origin and Meaning of Place Names in Canada

<i>The Origin and Meaning of Place Names in Canada</i>

The Origin and Meaning of Place Names in Canada

<i>The Origin and Meaning of Place Names in Canada</i>