Onomatopoeic expressions found inside the balloons
horse. That becomes the reason why the writer chose onomatopoeia “yee haw” belonging to Yo-He-Ho theory.
Onomatop oeia “yee haw” could be included to direct onomatopoeia. Even
when it was not listed in the dictionary, this expression has been conventionalized because it has been known by people and they may use the word “yee haw” to
represent the expression of cowboy riding a horse. Onomatopoeic words might be arisen as our creative use of language.
Fromkin in his book, An Introduction to Language 1999, when comes to topic of onomatopoeia “To say that we are creative in our use of language means that
language use is not limited to stimulus- response behavior.” Here is the example,
when someone steps on our foot, we might automatically respond by screaming or groaning. That is one of the behaviors which happens as a respond of some kind
of feelings or emotions. The third datum which is going to be analyzed is number IB08. The
picture will be presented below this paragraph. As what has been explained previously, this onomatopoeic expression might not an imitation, but this
expression is one of onomatopoeias which shows emotions or feelings. The picture below shows the expression of this kind of onomatopoeia. The word of
expression is a word “bah.”
Picture IB08 page 1 “Terror of the Transvaal”
Datum IB08 shows feeling of dissatisfaction. The panels before the picture above tell that Scrooge Mcduck goes to a place in Transvaal to get gold. It can be
seen then after Scrooge says, “Bah Too much hubbub Too many people I‟ll find a hole that big filled with gold. And all mine” The expression definitely shows
dissatisfac tion due to what he has been saying after the expression “Bah” He said
that that there are too many people. It is known that Scrooge wants to obtain much gold for him to get rich. In addition to the amount of people that come to that
place, it makes him get less of the gold, which is why he feels disappointed. Based on the theory of origin, it is indeed included in The Pooh-pooh
Theory, because the expression „bah‟ comes from dissatisfaction that reveals human emotion which is suitable with this theory. As said about the theory of
origin, the writer then chose direct onomatopoeia as its type, because the sound of this word resembles to the word.
This following datum is still an onomatopoeic expression which was found inside the balloon. Datum number IB09 shows the onomatopoeia about animal, in
which, this expression is used for the sound of a cat. Actually, it can be seen
through the conversation inside the balloon and the image where the balloon is pointed to the animal that the writer has said that is not a cat, but lion. The
following is the picture from the Source Text comic.
Picture IB09 page 7 “The Terror of the Transvaal”
The picture above shows a lion with the balloon above his head written “Meow”. It is a common knowledge that the tiger‟s sound is not “meow”. We already know
that “meow” is used for a cat‟s sound. It could be seen from the Longman Dictionary
which says that meow is to make the crying sound a cat makes. The picture above is telling us that the lion becomes afraid or sad because its neck is
tied by a rope from the duck, which is Scrooge McDuck. The Bow-wow theory is the most suitable theory for this kind of
expressions. As David Crystal 1987 says, the bow wow theory is a speech arose through people imitating the sounds of the environment, especially animal calls.
In this context, the animal sound which was being imitated is a cat. As seen in its origin of language, it can be concluded that the type of onomatopoeia of this
expression is a direct onomatopoeia, since the word is a imitation of the sound of a cat.
By reading the sentence after its expression, it is known that the conversation shows the feeling that is not good, which may be dissatisfaction, or
feeling of anger. Even in that balloon, there is still one more onomatopoeic expressions, it is „hisss‟. Based on type of onomatopoeia, „hiss‟ is one of example
of direct onomatopoeia because the sound it resembles is also the member of its class. The definition of „hiss‟ according to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
is a sound like long –s. In accordance to its definition which gives clue that is a
sound, it is said as onomatopoeia. The expressions “boo” and “hisss” were taken from this sort of comic as
what the writer has added below. It shows the conversation of the characters in the comic. The one that does the conversation containing the onomatopoeic
expression „boo‟ and „hiss‟ is the one wearing a blue hat.
Picture IB19 page 7 “The Billionaire of Dismal Down”
The focus for the expression the writer means is in the word „boo‟. According to Longman Dictionary
, „boo‟ means „a sound to make disapproval or contempt‟. For this dictionary meaning, the writer concludes it as one of examples
of Direct Onomatopoeia because the sound of the word resembles the sound that it names. If we take a look at the origin of language, this onomatopoeic expression
will be from The Pooh-pooh Theory which says that it comes from human emotion, which in this context is human emotion for feeling dissatisfied then
showing disapproval. There are also some onomatopoeic expressions that are not found in the
dictionary, but they were still translated into Indonesian, such as „yee haw‟ and „grrr‟. They are categorized as onomatopoeia because they denote the sound of
showing mad for „grr‟ and the sound of cowboy riding a horse for „yee haw‟. As what the writer has written before, they can be called as conventionalized words,
or the words that have been accepted and used by people.