Ecolinguistic Analysis of Toponyms in Malayalam
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Toponymy is the scientific study of place names and Ecolinguistics as an approach, perceives language as an ecological phenomenon. Sociolinguistic research has contributed significantly to an understanding of language use and language in social context just as Ecolinguistics has created awareness of language as an ecological phenomenon (Haugen 1972).Malayalam, a language spoken in the southernmost part of India has a rich tradition of literature and classical status.
Present study tries to portray the types of Toponyms in Malayalam language and its status as the memory of the past interrelations between humans and nature. Absence and presence of certain characteristics in place names do indicate the eco-cultural dimension of a speech community.In this paper, lexicalas well as grammatical properties of Malayalam Toponyms are approached from ecolinguistic point of view, by analyzing its current dynamisms of reinventing etymologies for ideological substantiation. This paper also tries to classify Malayalam Toponyms as far as possible according to its various functions.
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