Sounds all around : a guide to onomatopoeias around the world / Dr. James Chapman.
Material type: TextPublisher: Kansas : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 165 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781524850760
- 1524850764
- Guide to onomatopoeias around the world
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Graphic Novel | 401.4 C466 | Available | 33111009748068 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Words that imitate sounds are known as onomatopoeia, and they are a wonderfully strange and interesting part of language. After all, we all hear the same sounds, but we interpret and write them differently in different languages.
Sounds All Around is a fun and funny illustrated guide to how people say many of these sounds all around the globe.
Inside you'll learn what a cat sounds like in French, what a yawn sounds like in Norwegian, what a bell sounds like in Hindi, and much, much more!
"Did you know that in German, a pig doesn't say oink, it says grunz, and when you sneeze in Japanese it's hakushon, not achoo? With vibrant comics and fun facts, [this book] will teach you interesting and funny onomatopoeias from all over the world!" -- From back cover.