Onomatopoeic Words in the Present-day French - a Contrastive Corpus Study

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to define the concept of onomatopoeic word in the context of its phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic specifics. Subsequently, the author will briefly discuss topics related to the onomatopoeia - the question of the linguistic sign, the principle of arbitrariness and motivation, interjections, sound symbolism and ideophones. The findings and hypotheses from the theoretical part of the thesis will be verified in the practical part through the analysis of specific Czech and French onomatopoeic expressions