Hacia la elaboración de un diccionario de onomatopeyas en español

Abstract

Onomatopoeias have always been a controversial matter in linguistics due to two main reasons: on the one hand, it has been frequently assimilated to the interjections word class; on the other, because of the translation-related problems they pose crosslinguistically. These two problems and the rather scarce literature on onomatopoeias have encouraged the Gabinete de Lingüística de Corpus of the ILA at the Universidad de Cádiz to elaborate an onomatopoeias dictionary of Spanish. The aim of this article is to deal with the steps that have been followed to create this dictionary as well as the difficulties and the future applications that it may have.