Lost in translation: stories told by cross-linguistic onomatopoeias

• Main Author: Cheong, Joy Ningyue
• Other Authors: Joan Marie Kelly
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Linguistics; Onomatopoeias; Illustration; Illustrated book; Visual storytelling; Print design
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177448
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Lost in Translation is an illustrated book that tells stories with onomatopoeias (sound-imitating words) from different languages. This book showcases how onomatopoeias are interpreted by people who don’t speak the languages they are written in. It explores these interpretations, using them to tell...