大学英语专业毕业论文【浅谈英语拟声词的特点与翻译 】.doc

贵州师范学院毕业论文（设计） PAGE 1 PAGE 1 Ⅰ. Introduction Onomatopoetic word is a kind of vocabulary simulating sound of the nature and a component that all languages must own. It imitates noises of human beings, animals and things so as to increase languages of vividness, iconicity of the word-formation and rhetoric methods. As an indispensable figure of speech in rhetoric, onomatopoeia has a long history and is widely used in common discourse and literary works (Jiang and Zhong, 2008:277). An ancient Greek natural philosopher once remarked: There is no doubt that onomatopoetic words are the oldest word-formation of human in the world and the core of the whole vocabulary as well as the foundation of formation and development of language (Liu, 1998:143). Ⅱ. Classification of English Onomatopoetic Words In English, there are numerous onomatopoetic words that are composed of imitating sounds of all things whether they are animate or inanimate. According to the meaning of sound, onomatopoetic words can be divided into two categories, which are primitive onomatopoetic word and secondary onomatopoetic word (Wang and Li, 1983:47). 2.1 Primitive Onomatopoetic Word Primitive onomatopoetic word’s phonetic coincides briefly with its semantic, which makes people associate its sound with its meaning directly. Primitive onomatopoetic word can be subdivided into the words that simply imitating the sound but not representing the object itself and imitating the sound as well as the object itself. According to its origin, the former refers to simulating voices of human beings, such as ouch, ow, giggle, shoo, hum, chatter, chuckle etc.; and simulating voices of animals, such as a mew of cat, a drone of bee, a croak of frog, a gaggle of goose, a neigh of horse, a baa of sheep, a oink of pig, a growl of tiger and the like; as well as simulating sound of objects like click, clack, clink, clang, ding dong, hoot, putter, squash and so forth. The latter initially refers to imitating a sou