Abstract:

One of the most important field of studies of ‘Onomatology’, which represents the organic relationship to cultural structure in the field of linguistics, is workplace names. The workplace names reflect perceptibly dynamism of language with regard to functionality and meaning richness. For this reason, it is predicable that the workplace names give us significant clues about feelings and thoughts of people even aboutidentity of the society taking into consideration those names are given by people that live in the society. Although there are many valuablestudies on the field of working place in our country, it is still not as it should be. To this end, aiming to contribute to onomatology in that study, it has been tried for getting tangible data abouthow the naming process happened in Kilis by analysing workplace names in Kilis in point of their meanings. In line with this purpose, the workplace names on Cumhuriyet Street and Murtaza Street which are the most crowded ones have been picked particularly as sample. Interviewed and asked to the owners of the workplaces how the naming process took place, it has been studied with actual data.

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