2019 – 20201 (2) MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY M.THESIS ENGLISH LANGUAGE A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS ON STREET NAMES IN LONDON AND HANOI ( Đối chiếu tên đường phố ở Luân Đôn và Hà Nội) HOÀNG TRUNG NGHĨA HOÀNG TRUNG NGHĨA Field: English Language Code: 8.01 HANOI - 2021 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY M.THESIS A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS ON STREET NAMES IN LONDON AND HANOI ( Đối chiếu tên đường phố ở Luân Đôn và Hà Nội) HOÀNG TRUNG NGHĨA Field: English Language Code: 8.01 Supervisor: LÊ THỊ MINH THẢO Ph.D HANOI - 2021 CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY I, the undersigned, hereby certify my authority of the study project report entitled “A Contrastive Analysis on Street names in London and Hanoi” submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in English Language. Except where the reference is indicated, no other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgement in the text of the thesis. Hanoi, 2021 Hoàng Trung Nghĩa Approved by SUPERVISOR Date: …………………… i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It has been a long journey for me to finish my thesis. There are also many people who walked along with me to support and motivate me during the time of doing the research.
First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Ms.Le Thi Minh Thao, Ph.D my supervisor, who has patiently and constantly supported me through the stages of the study, and whose stimulating ideas, expertise, and suggestions have inspired me greatly through my growth as an academic researcher. My thanks also go to all my lecturers at Hanoi Open University for their precious knowledge which lay the foundation for this study, my colleagues and many others whose support and encouragement help me to have this thesis accomplished. Last but not least, I am greatly indebted to my family and friends for their patience, endless love, and devotion. Whatever choices I have made, they have always stood by me and believed in me.
I am immensely thankful for all the assistance they have given to me. ii ABSTRACT Research on place names, especially street names, is always an attractive topic for many researchers. Taking the street names of two districts and one area in London and three urban districts of Hanoi as the object of the survey, the thesis has approached and learned about the street names in the cities centre of London and Hanoi, in the present context that there are rare research on place names from a linguistic perspective on a certain area of Hanoi capital. In this thesis, we study street names in London and street names in Hanoi to find out their structural features and semantic features of the street names of both London and Hanoi.
The methods used in this study include: Research approach, Data collection, Data analysis .The thesis studies place names as a complete lexical unit (word/phrase), belonging to the lexical vocabulary in language. Place names have the function of naming specific things that exist on the earth's surface, taking on geographical space, helping to distinguish one thing from another. However, the perception of each ethnic group is different, therefore, the place names also have different interpretations and expressions (phonetic shell). The important thing when learning a place name is a matter of its meaning or reason for naming it.
This is due to the change in the internal structure of the language and also the influencing factors of the external environment, what we call "compose structure" and "identification method. The comparative comparison between the two street names of the two capitals is to find out the similarities and differences between the street names of the two countries, thereby contributing to the increase of research literature on said street names particular and the place names in general. iii LIST OF TABLES Table 2. The position of place names in the overall relationship with other specialties of linguistics …………………………………….
Structural model of street names ……………………. The complex structure of street names………………. Statistics of street names by types of structure………. Street names base on some criterias………………….5 Structural model of street names…………………….
Statistics of places by number of elements…………. Street name has a simple structure according to the criteria from a single syllable structure and the name of a polysyllabic person belongs to single structure……………………………………………. Street names base on some criterias………………………….48 iv TABLE OF CONTENTS CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY. iii LIST OF TABLES.
Aim and objectives:. Aim of the study:. Objectives of the study:. Scope of the study.
Methods of the study. Significance of the research. Structure of Thesis. 6 Chapter 2 LITERATURE REVIEW……………………………………………….
Review of previous studies. Previous studies of foreign Linguists. Previous studies of Vietnamese Linguists .1 Study on places in Vietnam. Study on street names in Hanoi.
Review of theoretical background. Concept of place-name .2 Place-name classification .3 The function of place names. Some theoretical problems about proper names. 23 COMPARISION BETWEEN STREET NAMES LONDON AND HANOI.
The features of language of street name in London. Street names describe colour .27 Street names that describe colors account for only 2.27 For example: Orange street, Green street…. Street names reflect the direction and position of objects relative to other objects. The streets are named after the Abbot, bishop, Dean’s name.
Street names are named after people's wishes. The streets are named after the famous people, history character. Street names are named after local landowners. Street names are named after other groups.
The features of language of street name in Hanoi. The similarities and differences between the street names in London and Hanoi. Recapitulation of the study .Limitation of the research. Recommendation/ Suggestion for further research.
56 vi Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale In the world, everywhere around us, everything and phenomenon has a name. The strange thing is the name appears as soon as people recognize and understand them. It can be people's names, river names, mountain names, village names, neighborhood names, street names, tools names, etc. Those names arise from the actual needs of people.
Humans need to have a clear distinction between things, this object with things, that object, between this space and another space. Although, that name may be different from region to region and piece of land, at least they are "used" and "reused" by the community there for a long time. It has a very strong vitality. Maybe the thing, the phenomenon has disappeared, but its name is still and is remembered.
Those names are proper names, the study of which has formed a separate discipline called onomasiologie. If the object of study of onomasiologie is a person's name, it is called name, and if the object of study is names associated with geographical space, it is toponymy. The study of place names plays an important role in linguistics, especially in the study of language history. In terms of internal structure, it has a significant impact and influence on finding the rules of language structure.
Place name is a fairly fixed and long-lasting vocabulary, so investigating and studying it will give us more accurate conclusions than using other words. Moreover, the basic function of place names is to identify and personalize objects, so they can exist in the present time even when the object no longer exists or has lost its meaning. Many people use place names just to call name or distinguish one object from another without fully understanding its meaning. The study of place names in general and the study of street and street names in general not only clarify the rules and ways of language structure, but also clarify the culture, history, traditions.
Street names have a close relationship with the culture and history where they were formed. Each name, each place that appears has its own reasons and interpretations of the people there. Moreover, they can have many different names, associated with different events. Those place names help us to go back in time, learn about the cultural features and changes of the nation's history.
It is a mirror that reflects the contemporary and historical values of language 1 and culture. Obviously, the study of street names is closely related to the study of culture and history, which is an urgent issue in the current period. The study of street names in some districts of london and hanoi is not only meaningful a region but also meaningful for the capitals of two countries. Contributing to a deep understanding of the history and culture of london and hanoi.
This is the reason why we have chosen the topic " A constractive anlaysis on street name in London and Hanoi" as our master's thesis. Aim and objectives: 1. Aim of the study: This thesis sets out the purpose of comparing street names in London and Hanoi in order to point out the structural and semantic features of the naming method of street names in the two cities above from a linguistic perspective. Objectives of the study: - Finding out the structural and semantic features of street-names in London and Hanoi - Investigating the similarities and differences between street-names in London and Hanoi.
- Suggesting the implication of the thesis. Scope of the study The scope of research of the thesis is street-names in the whole districts in London and Hanoi in current period. However, the number of street-names is too large, We only research some streets in three districts of London are Marlybone, Westminster and Soho area and Hanoi is Ba Dinh, Hoan Kiem, Hai Ba Trung district. What are the structural features of street-names in London and Hanoi ? 2.
What are semantic features of street-names in London and Hanoi ? 3. What are the similarities and differences of language of street-name in London and Hanoi ? 1. Methods of the study The methods used in this study include: Research approach: The mixed method (quantitative method and qualitative method) and contrastive method is based on the foundation below in applying in this dissertation: (i) Quantitative approach 2 As the primary example of hypothesis-testing research, quantitative method begins with a question or hypothesis to be investigated through data quantification and numerical analyses. Quantitative approaches revolve ‘how much, how often or how many’ (Judd et al,1991, p.174) or this is the label for ‘numerical research’ (Brown & Rodgers, 2002: 15).
Including key elements like formal and systematic measurement and the use of statistics, studies that make use of statistical analyses to obtain their findings are involved in quantitative method. The researcher does not necessarily presuppose a realist or objectivist point of view; rather, the researcher can presuppose the categories or entities that he/she operationalizes to be socially and cognitively constructed (Ender, 2012:198).The potential weaknesses of quantitative research include great attention paid to the technical details of the research in general, and to measuring techniques and procedures in particular; too much respect to numerical data, which are produced intentionally but interpreted as objective phenomena (McMillan & Schumacher, 1993; Jonker & Pennink, 2010). Data can be analyzed using statistical methods or particular mathematics tools allowing us to work with numerical data (Lia, 2010: 52).SPSS statistics - a software package used for interactive or batched statistical analysis - is a widely used program for statistical analysis in social science. Being appropriate for people with little experience in statistics and programming because of its user-friendly interactive features, the original SPSS manual (Nie, Bent & Hull: 1970) has been described as one of ‘sociology's most influential books’ for allowing ordinary researchers to do their own statistical analysis.
The ultimate goal is to discover phenomena not previously described and to understand them from the perspective of participants in the activity.