Onomatopoeia in English Language

Тип работы: Курсовая
Предмет: Английский
Год защиты: 2015
Кол-во страниц: 27 стр

Описание работы

The actuality of the theme is that sound imitation is met very often and such words can quickly enter our speech and dictionaries. The object is words in English language created by sound imitating. The subject is investigating word-formation. The aim of the research is to investigate onomatopoeia in English language, its characteristic and meaning in texts. In order to reach the goal we must solve the following tasks: - to regard the main types of word-formation in English; - to give definition and characteristics of onomatopoeia in English; - to make a list of onomatopoeic words and their meaning; - to analyze examples of sound imitation in English texts. The course paper consists of introduction, two chapters, conclusion and bibliography.

Оглавление:

Introduction    3

1 Theoretical Discourse Onomatopoeia in English Language    5
1.1 Main types of Word-Formation in English    5
1.2 Characteristics and Functions of Onomatopoeia in English    8

2 Examples of Onomatopoeia in English Language    13
2.1 List of Onomatopoeic Words and their Meaning    13
2.2 Examples of Sound Imitation in English Texts    17

Conclusion    26

Bibliography    27


Источники:

1. Yule, George. The Study of Language. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Print. 2. Finegan, Edward. Language: Its Structure and Use. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2007. Print. 3. Wisniewski, Kamil. ''Word Formation'', Tlumaczenia Angielski. n.p. 2007. Web. 22 March 2011. Word Formation. Wikipedia. 2011. Web. 21 March 2011. 4. Martin, Gary. ''Reduplication'', Phrase Finder. n.p. 2006. Web. 26 March 2011. 5. Peters, Mark. ''Whoo-hoo! Linguistic reduplication!'', Good Magazine. n.p. 2009. Web. 25 March 2011. 6. Yousefi, Mohsen. Word Formation Processes in English. n.p. 2009. Web. 23 March 2011. 7. Carroll, Lewis. Through the looking glass. London: Penguin popular classics. 1994. Print. Compound (linguistics). Wikipedia. 2011. Web. 25

Количество источников: 20


Цена: 3000 тг

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