从中国地名透视汉族人的思维方式和社会心理

Probing the Thinking Mode and Social Psychology of the Hans in the View of Chinese Place Name

语言是一种特殊的文化现象,民族语言是民族文化的存在形式,文化内容的特点常常在语言中得到反映。地名属于语言词汇中的专有名词,它作为一种文化现象,是人类的认识成果,积淀了人类的思维方式和心理特征。探讨地名和文化的关系是文化语言学的一项研究内容。从地名和思维方式、社会心理的关系来看,中国地名具有丰富的文化内涵。

Language is a special phenomenon in culture. National language is a form of national culture existence, reflecting the features of cultural contents. Place name, the proper noun in vocabulary of a language, as a cultural phenomenon, is the result of human cognition, collecting mode of thinking and psychological traits of human being. The research of the relations between place names and culture is a content in studying cultural linguistics. This article undertakes to discover the cultural connotation of place from the relations among place names, modes of thinking and social psychology.