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1、第14页TranslationofEnglishOnomatopoeicwordsintoChineseI.Introduction1.1BackgroundOnomatopoeiaisagroupofwordsthatimitatethesoundtheyrepresents.TheabundantuseofonomatopoeiaineverydayEnglishposesproblemsnotonlytoforeignerstryingtomasterthelanguage,butalsototeachersa
2、ndtranslatorsofEnglish.Onomatopoeiaisoftenusedtoexpressanimpressioninapersonal,emotionalmanner,andthereforeconsideredindispensablenotonlyinconversation.Areonomatopoeiaexpressionstobetreatedasanyothervocabularywhentranslated?Ofcourse,theanswerisno.BecauseEnglish
3、onomatopoeiaexpressionsaredifferentfromothers.Generally,linguistictheoryconsiderstherelationbetweensoundandmeaningtobearbitraryandonomatopoeiatobeanexceptiontotherule.Moreandmoreresearches,though,havebeenmadeonsoundsymbolism,whichclaimsthatthereisadirectlinkbet
4、weensoundandmeaning(Hinton1994).Somelinguistsusethebroaderterm‘soundsymbolism’todescribetheChineseonomatopoeia.Onomatopoeia,sheargues,areonlysoundwords.InEnglish,though,onomatopoeiaisusedbothformimesiswordsandthosethatdescribenon-audiblestatesandactionsbymimeti
5、cwords.ThisisadistinctdifferencebetweensoundsymbolisminEnglishandChinese.InEnglish,soundsymbolismisanimportantpartofthelanguage.Itisawell-structuredsoundsymbolicsystem,whereitiseasyforthenativespeakertoguessthemeaningofanewword.InChinese,ontheotherhand,soundsym
6、bolismisperipheralandbasedonconsonantclusters.Manylinguistsstatetheirdifferentviews.1.2RelatedStudiesTranslatingistheartofrecomposingaworkinanotherlanguagewithoutlosingitsoriginalflavor.Thetopicofthisarticleisonomatopoeia.Brieflyspeaking,onomatopoeiabelongstovo
7、cabularyandlexicologythatdealswithwords.Wordsarethefoundationandcoreoflanguage.Weknowthatwithoutwords,therewouldbenolinguistics.Therefore,word,languageandlinguisticsareverycloselyinterrelatedwithoneanother.BeforestudyingthetranslationofEnglishonomatopoeiaintoCh
8、inese,weshouldlearnabouttherelatedstudies.第14页SeveralstudieshavebeenmadecomparingJapaneseandEnglishonomatopoeia.Kakehi(1982)statesthatinJapanesetheonomatopoeiaexpressionusua
