Frame Models in Translation: Onomatopeia Aspect in Haruki Murakami Wind-Up Bird Chronicles

• Authors: Dariia Rzhevska

Abstracts

The article oers an insight into the importance of frames and their features to convey the meaning of Japanese onomatopoeia in the translation process. Based on the present scientic and practical research of the novel by Haruki Murakami Wind-up Bird Chronicles and its translation by Jay Rubin, there have been counted frequencies of use along with clarication of the semantic and stylistic peculiarities of onomatopoeia. Frame analysis, which is used to convey the meaning of Japanese onomatopoeia in the context of the English translation, enables to identify the main characteristics of Japanese syntax, especially the use of particles. Since there is no grammar case in Japanese, onomatopoeic verbs are determined by particles, and predicate plays the main role in the sentence structure. In this case, particles may form additional grammar cases. To visualize his inner world, Haruki Murakami uses onomatopoeias that convey emotions and feelings of the protagonist, as well as the descriptions of peculiar features and sounds of nature. It is the presence of mimetics that enables Murakami to create a complex frame net that intertwines the main storylines through the permanent repeating of some onomatopoeia.

Keywords

EN

conceptual content; onomatopoeia; mimetics; frame; frame model; FrameNet system; adequate translation/translation techniques; dictionary and contextual; equivalents.

• Publisher: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Chełmie
• Journal: Language. Culture. Politics. International Journal
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 27-36

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Dariia Rzhevska

• National Aviation University, Kyiv (Ukraine)

• https://orcid.org/0000000194554490

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Identifiers

DOI

10.54515/lcp.2022.1.27-36

Biblioteka Nauki

2137341