نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 گروه زبانشناسی ، دانشکده زبانهای خارجی، دانشگاه ولیعصر (عج) رفسنجان
2 گروه مطالعات ترجمه ، دانشکده زبانهای خارجی، دانشگاه ولیعصر (عج) رفسنجان
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
The present study investigates the Asian toponyms based on two linguistic criteria. The first criterion is the main factor for calling Asian countries; in other word, we try to determine the different social factors of the Asian toponyms. The second criterion is related to Persian equivalences of Asian toponyms. In this part, the word formation processes which are used for naming Asian countries in Persian will be investigated. For these sakes, 43 Asian country names extracted. The results of the first goal reveal that there are 9 factors for the Asian toponyms. Among them, the name of tribes and nations and Geographical Features are the most popular ones since the first one used in 14 and the second one in 13 Asian toponyms. Other factors are the name of Geographical direction, Kingdom dynasty, people characteristics, the name of a person, the name of holy places, the name of God or Goddess and the name of animals. The results of the second criterion also shows that there are 3 word formation processes for naming Asian toponyms including Borrowing, coinage and loan translation. The most popular one is borrowing which is used in 28 Persian equivalents of Asian toponyms. Coinage used for the formation of 9 Asian toponyms in Persian and 6 Asian toponyms is the result of Loan translation in Persian.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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