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On Street Names from the Perspective of Sociolinguistics:Wuhua District of Kunming City as an Example

LUO Na   

  1. School of Foreign Languages,Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500,China
  • Received:2015-09-23 Online:2016-01-15 Published:2026-05-15

Abstract:

Taking Wuhua district of Kunming as an example,from new perspective of sociolinguistics,this paper studies the way to name the urban streets and analyzes the features of the names of main streets,interpreting the reflected social values from language and society. The result shows that the street names in Wuhua district mainly consist of three syllables,which reflects not only the social life of local people,butalso the local history&culture,and the characteristics unique to city.

Key words: sociolinguistics, streets names, history&culture

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