Onomatopoeia, translation and relevance

Abstract It is generally acknowledged that onomatopoeia poses challenges for translation. However, there little research into the translation of in Pragmatics. This study seeks to examine nature and its implications from perspective relevance theory, addressing, particular, following questions: (i) Can notions pragmatics help account perceived involved translating onomatopoeia? (ii) Would showing-meaning affect (iii) What other factors result difficulties why? To this end, a corpus-based analysis was conducted using user-generated data provided by Cookpad Inc. Findings show relevance-theoretic continuum perceptual resemblance can indeed onomatopoeia. also stylistic aspects, such as types expressions text types, impact on