Classification of onomatopoeia in children’s literature (on the example of “Paddington” by Michael Bond)

Аннотация

This research is on the onomatopoeia or onomatopoeic expressions or words and meaning of onomatopoeias found in the children’s literature “Paddington” by Michael Bond, data analysis was classified into four classifications, the classification of the types of onomatopoeia based on Bredin (1996), the classification by the sound it describes, onomatopoeia meaning based on dictionary and Contextual meaning. This study was descriptive qualitative research. The result of this research showed that there were 103 onomatopoeia or onomatopoeic words that could be found in the comic. From the 103 expressions, 66 onomatopoeia expressions are similar to 38 onomatopoeic ex- pressions found by the researcher. Based on the types, 23 of the data belong to direct onomatopoeia, 9 belong to Associative onomatopoeia and 6 belong to Exemplary on- omatopoeia. Based on the classification of onomatopoeia by the sound it describes the researcher found 17 Human sound data, 21 other sound data, 2 animal sound data, and 1 instrument sound data. Most of the data were direct onomatopoeia because most of the onomatopoeic expressions in the children’s book entitled “Paddington” were words, which represent the sound of action. Key words: onomatopoeia, human sound, children’s book, direct, associative, exempla- ry, contextual meaning, lexical meaning, onomatopoeic expressions.