Onomatopoeia

DEFINITIONS:
 * Onomatopoeia **

INTRODUCTION:
 * 1) Onomatopoeia is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
 * 2) Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. It refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises,such as "oink" or "meow" or "roar". (1)
 * 3) Use of words that imitate natural sounds .

Onomatopoeias are one of the most ancient part in human’s language culture.They do not present the same across all languages; hence the sound of a clock may be tick tock in English, dī dā in Mandarin, or katchin katchin in Japanese. Onomatopoeias conform to some extent to the broader linguistic system they are part of; Onomatopoeias can be classified into nouns and verbs basically. Some unique letters symbolize special phenomenon or situation and remind us of certain circumstance.

For example, words ended with letter “s” mostly relate to the sound of wind, water or snakes. Letter “m” refers to those low and deep sounds. Such as the sounds of insects, pigeons and tsunami. "H" must be pronounced by air flow, so they can remind us of those sound made in heavy work. Like hurry, heave, huge, hurl, hoist, hop and so on. "P" and "B" which are labial letters represent water-related sounds as boil, bubble, drip, drop, lap, plop and ripple. ORIGIN & FUNCTIONS of ONOMATOPOEIA:

Onomatopoeia has a long history. The noun onomatopoeia is thought to has been first used in around 1577 AD. According to the Oxford Dictionary, the word onomatopoeia originates from the Greek word //onomatopoiia // meaning 'word-making'. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary reports the onomatopoiia is derived from the Greek //onoma //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 'name' and //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">poiein //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 'to make'.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A sound theory underlies that we read not only with our eyes but also with our ears. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The smallest child, learning to read by reading about bees, needs no translation for //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">buzz //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Printed onomatopoeias appeared in written books are the start point for children to know about them.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Linguists almost always begin discussions about onomatopoeia with observations like the following: the //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">snip //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> of a pair of scissors is //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">su-su //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> in Chinese, //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">cri-cri //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> in Italian, //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">riqui-riqui //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> in Spanish, //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">terre-terre //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> in Portuguese, //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">krits-krits //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> in modern Greek. . . . Some linguists gleefully expose the conventional nature of these words, as if revealing a fraud."

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(Earl Anderson, //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Grammar of Iconism //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. Fairleigh Dickinson, 1999) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Like every other device of the writing art, onomatopoeia can be overdone, but it is effective in creating mood or pace. If we skip through the alphabet we find plenty of words to slow the pace: //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">balk, crawl, dawdle, meander, trudge //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> and so on. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Embedding some onomatopoeias into your article will vivid the characters and actions, improve your capability to use English language.

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: left;">APPLICATIONS of ONOMATOPOEIA:

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Onomatopoeia is widely used in English language especially in literal writing. Let’s move to some practical applications of onomatopoeia. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In the phrase “the fly buzzed past", the word buzzed is used to describe the noise of a flying fly. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Here is another example: "He clattered and clanged as he washed the dishes." "Clanged" and clanged" here is obviously remind us of the knocks of the dishes. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Onomatopoeia is used widely when describing animal sounds such as "meow" is to imitate kitten. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What interests me is that the word "woof" is a name of a certain kind of canidae animal, and sound of it at the same time. So once we read the word "woof", it is easily to remind us the sound and the picture of woof the animal.

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">“Zip" is an onomatopoeia word. It sounds like a jacket is zipping up. When you zip up a zipper the sound the zipper makes sounds like a zipper."Zip" is an example of onomatopoeia because it sounds like what it is.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">More similar examples are as follows:" Pop" is when a balloon is burst, “growl" is when a fierce dog is barking, "tinkle" is to describe a small bell's ringing, and "click" is what a light being switched on.

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: left;">Some Applications in specific situations:

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">1.ONOATOPOEIA WORDS ON A FARM: <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Take a look and listen aroud, if you are required to take all these sounds down, what would you do?My version may as follows:A turkey “gobbles” and a bull “bellows”;“twitters” went to a sparrow and bees are “humming”; A sow is grunting in her pig pen and the donkey is braying happily; Lams are bleating while oxen are bellowing. Wow! Look at that hissing viper in the grass! <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Keep moving. On my way to a small lake, I can see the “babbing” water in the brook, hear the frogs "creaking", cuckoos "cuckooing", birds are "flapping" there wings in the woods. The mild wind whispered in the pines and I hear a wolf is growling. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2, ONOATOPOEIA WORDS in a restaurant: <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">When you enter a restaurant full of sounds, you will find that most of sounds goes to onomatopoeias. Let's make it more clear: <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Click: somebody enters and close the door. <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Boom: goes the food trays. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">sizzle: french fried is in the oil pan.

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Clanged: the crunching dishes. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rip:gose the plastic bag.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Munch: you are eating a hamburger.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Slurp:went the straws.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Crunch: go the candy bars.

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Clatter: the girls are gossiping. <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Flap: a fly was flapped off. (4)  <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: left;">EXAMPLES and OBESERVATIONS in literal applications:

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The use of onomatopoeia in literature is quite common; subconsciously we hear the words on a printed page. let's take a look at some classical ones. > //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ding dong! //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> the bells are gonna chime." > (Lerner and Loewe, "Get Me to the Church on Time," //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">My Fair Lady //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">)   <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"Ding dong" may can't be found in a dictionary, but it is so vivid that we can easily connect it to the door bell rings.   > (slogan of Alka Seltzer, U.S.)  > (Alka Seltzer, U.K.)    <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The onomatopoeias are combined with the rhythm sounds quiet catchy.   > (Adam Bradley, //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. BasicCivitas, 2009) MORE INFORMATIONS mentioned by linguists:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"I'm getting married in the morning!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">" //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Plop, plop, fizz, fizz //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, oh what a relief it is."
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">" //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Plink, plink, fizz, fizz //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"'Woop! Woop! That's the sound of da police,' KRS-One famously chants on the hook of 'Sound of da Police' from 1993's //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Return of the Boombap //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. The unmistakable sound he makes in place of the police siren is an example of //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> onomatopoeia //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, the trope that works by exchanging the thing itself for a linguistic representation of the sound it makes."

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Some authors expresses their appreciation of onomatopoeia directly in their poems, and some linguists used their own ways to clarify the meaning and use of onomatopoeia. Authority’s work may open another door for us to look into them: > My senses tell me hubba > And I just can't disagree. > I get a feeling in my heart that I can't describe. . . . > > It's sort of whack, whir, wheeze, whine > Sputter, splat, squirt, scrape > Clink, clank, clunk, clatter > Crash, bang, beep, buzz > Ring, rip, roar, retch > Twang, toot, tinkle, thud > Pop, plop, plunk, pow > Snort, snuck, sniff, smack > Screech, splash, squish, squeak > Jingle, rattle, squeal, boing > Honk, hoot, hack, belch." > (Todd Rundgren, "Onomatopoeia") <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> His shtick is that he doesn't speak; he just mimics the noises you can print in comic books." (Kevin Smith, //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Newsweek //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, Oct. 27, 2008) > //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Crash! //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> went the window > //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ouch! //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> went the son of a gun. > Onomatopoeia-- > I don't want to see ya > Speaking in a foreign tongue." > (John Prine, "Onomatopoeia")
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"Onomatopoeia every time I see ya
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"I have a new book, 'Batman: Cacophony.' Batman faces off against a character called Onomatopoeia.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">" //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bang! //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> went the pistol,

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> "The writer who wants to write 'fast' has many choices. Her hero can //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">bolt, dash, hurry //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> or //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">hustle //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">." <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> (James Kilpatrick, "Listening to What We Write." //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Columbus Dispatch //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, Aug. 1, 2007)

> (Ernest Hemingway, //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">For Whom the Bell Tolls //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">) > And //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">whirr //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> when it stood still. > I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will." > (Tom Paxton, "The Marvelous Toy") > (Garrison Keillor)   <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"> Let's look at an interesting conversation happened between two characters:  > Sam Seaborn: Frumpy? > Russian Negotiator: I don't know what "frumpy" is but onomatopoetically sounds right. > Sam Seaborn: It's hard not to like a guy who doesn't know frumpy but knows onomatopoeia. > (Ian McShane and Rob Lowe in "Enemies Foreign and Domestic." The West Wing, 2002)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"He saw nothing and heard nothing but he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">clack //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> on stone and the leaping, dropping //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">clicks //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> of a small rock falling."
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"It went //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">zip //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> when it moved and //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">bop //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> when it stopped,
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"I like the word //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">geezer //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, a descriptive sound, almost onomatopoeia, and also coot, codger, biddy, battleaxe, and most of the other words for old farts."
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Russian Negotiator: Why must every American president bound out of an automobile like as at a yacht club while in comparison our leader looks like . . . I don't even know what word is.

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: left;">Onomatopoeia in jokes&poems

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Onomatopoeia can be used as a linguistic divice in many type of writings including jokes.Le't look at the examples.

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">What about the joke: <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"Knock-knock Who's there?

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Boo

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Boo who?

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Don't cry, I was only joking." Onomatopoeia always acess to direct hearings so it tends to be understandable and easy to memorized.  <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Onomatopoeia is also widely used by poets in their poems.For example, in the last lines of Sir Alfred Tennyson's poem "Come Down, O Maid", m and n sounds produce an atmosphere of murmuring insects.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Examples of onomatopoeia are commonly found in poems and nursery rhymes written especially for children. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Onomatopoeic words produce strong images that can both delight and amuse kids when listening to their parents read poetry. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Some examples of onomatopoeia poems for children are:

//<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Baa Baa Black Sheep // <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">//Old Macdonald//(3)

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Both of these poems use onomatopoeic representations of animal noises to entertain. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">There are many other examples of onomatopoeia found in kid's poetry, see if you can hear them next time you listen to a nursery rhyme.

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