A Study Of Street Names In Urban Area Of Jinzhou From The Perspectives Of Language Culture

Jinzhou is a famous historical city which contains rich cultural deposits. The characteristics and evolution of Jinzhou street names both reflect the historical culture and development appearance of the city. Street name is a linguistic symbol. It is some social groups established by popular usage to the specific regions. It is not only a linguistic phenomenon. It is a cultural phenomenon, but also a complex of language and culture. Jinzhou has 203 street names. The phonetic features of these street name is that the syllable mainly composed with three syllable and four syllable words, it have at least two syllables up to fourteen syllables. The tonal collocation of these street name have three situation as level tone connected, oblique tones connected, and inter-phase level and oblique tones. These street name have three architectural feature:“proper name + general name(use proper name to positioning, general name determine type”, “proper name + numeral + general name(street, road)”, “proper name + noun of locality + general name(street, road)” Naming motivation of Jinzhou street name mainly has the following several. The first, named with geographical position to highlight the finger position function of the street name. The second, named with people will to response people’s psychological demands and social mentality. The third, named with historical heroes or event to heritage. Since the modern times, the street name of Jinzhou downtown change with an era of bright colors. In new period, the standardization Jinzhou downtown street name has made certain achievements. Street name signs developed from scratch. Street name has been more standard than before. But there are also some problems in standardization work of Jinzhou street name. For these problems, I proposed forward several feasible suggestions as strengthen the management of the street name, create website and database for Jinzhou street name, protect and promote ancient street name, build brand for street name with city features.