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1、第14页TranslationofEnglishOnomatopoeicwordsintoChineseI.Introduction1.1BackgroundOnomatopoeiaisagroupofwordsthatimitatethesoundtheyrepresents.TheabundantuseofonomatopoeiaineverydayEnglishposesproblemsnotonlytoforeignerstryingtomasterthelanguage,butalsototeachersand
2、translatorsofEnglish.Onomatopoeiaisoftenusedtoexpressanimpressioninapersonal,emotionalmanner,andthereforeconsideredindispensablenotonlyinconversation.Areonomatopoeiaexpressionstobetreatedasanyothervocabularywhentranslated?Ofcourse,theanswerisno.BecauseEnglishonom
3、atopoeiaexpressionsaredifferentfromothers.Generally,linguistictheoryconsiderstherelationbetweensoundandmeaningtobearbitraryandonomatopoeiatobeanexceptiontotherule.Moreandmoreresearches,though,havebeenmadeonsoundsymbolism,whichclaimsthatthereisadirectlinkbetweenso
4、undandmeaning(Hinton1994).Somelinguistsusethebroaderterm‘soundsymbolism’todescribetheChineseonomatopoeia.Onomatopoeia,sheargues,areonlysoundwords.InEnglish,though,onomatopoeiaisusedbothformimesiswordsandthosethatdescribenon-audiblestatesandactionsbymimeticwords.T
5、hisisadistinctdifferencebetweensoundsymbolisminEnglishandChinese.InEnglish,soundsymbolismisanimportantpartofthelanguage.Itisawell-structuredsoundsymbolicsystem,whereitiseasyforthenativespeakertoguessthemeaningofanewword.InChinese,ontheotherhand,soundsymbolismispe
6、ripheralandbasedonconsonantclusters.Manylinguistsstatetheirdifferentviews.1.2RelatedStudiesTranslatingistheartofrecomposingaworkinanotherlanguagewithoutlosingitsoriginalflavor.Thetopicofthisarticleisonomatopoeia.Brieflyspeaking,onomatopoeiabelongstovocabularyandl
7、exicologythatdealswithwords.Wordsarethefoundationandcoreoflanguage.Weknowthatwithoutwords,therewouldbenolinguistics.Therefore,word,languageandlinguisticsareverycloselyinterrelatedwithoneanother.BeforestudyingthetranslationofEnglishonomatopoeiaintoChinese,weshould
8、learnabouttherelatedstudies.吉林华桥外国语学院毕业论文用纸第14页SeveralstudieshavebeenmadecomparingJapaneseandEnglishonomatopoeia.Kakehi(1982)statesthatinJapanesetheonomatopoei
