ONOMATOPEAIA IN SMALL CHILDREN`S LITERATURE: ENGLISH-MACEDONIAN COMPARISON Cover Image

ОНОМАТОПЕЈАТА ВО ЛИТЕРАТУРАТА ЗА МАЛИ ДЕЦА: АНГЛИСКО-МАКЕДОНСКИ СПОРЕДБИ
ONOMATOPEAIA IN SMALL CHILDREN`S LITERATURE: ENGLISH-MACEDONIAN COMPARISON

Author(s): Zvonko Taneski, Ana Lazarova-Nikovska
Subject(s): Comparative Linguistics, Comparative Study of Literature, Macedonian Literature
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: onomatopoeia; literature for children; English-Macedonian comparison

Summary/Abstract: In the Republic of Macedonia in recent years there has been an increase in the translations of foreign authors of literature for children. It is a literary genre which imposes a number of challenges for the translator, both from a linguistic, as well as from a cultural perspective. In this paper, we focus specifically on the popular nursery rhymes, as presented in the Anglo-Saxon literary tradition. Our linguistic analysis centres around exclamations and other onomatopoeic expressions, as largely used stylistic figures in the particular literary genre. In the paper, we offer a semantic typological classification of the exclamations used as well as translation strategies or their translation equivalents.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 61
  • Page Range: 103-115
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Macedonian
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