Onomatopeia in Raditya Dika’s Novel “Manusia Setengah Salmon”

Abstract

This study aimed to describe and explain the types of onomatopoeia found in Raditya
 Dika’s novel Manusia Setengah Salmon. Onomatopoeia refers to a word whose
 phonetic structure mimics a natural sound to represent the sound or action of the
 object that produces it. Onomatopoeia behaves differently in comparison to other
 processes of word formation. Its meaning lies outside the language itself due to its
 nature which is adopted from the natural sound. The data analysis technique was
 used in this research with descriptive qualitative analysis. The descriptive research
 attempted to describe and explain the data according to the theory proposed by
 Thomas (2004) who divides onomatopoeia into four groups based on the source of the
 sound: calls of animals, sounds of nature, sounds made by human, and sounds of other
 objects. Based on the result, the four types of onomatopoeia were found in the novel
 under research: human onomatopoeia, animal onomatopoeia, object onomatopoeia,
 and daily life onomatopoeia. From the word class, onomatopoeic words used in the
 novel consists of adverb, adjective, noun, and verb.