Abstract
This paper reflects the results of the investigation into pragmatic potential of onomatopoeia as a part of children’s movies. The enquiry into this subject was conducted within the framework of the project devoted to the evolution and functioning of language within films for children. The paper includes the analysis of onomatopoeia through language development aspects, stylistic and pragmatic analysis. In this regard our attention is focused on the semantic, pragmatic and linguistic characteristics of onomatopoeia. It has been suggested that the onomatopoeia performs different functions within the children’s movies acting as a strong expressive component, reflecting the level of speech development, conveying emotions, describing nature, supporting musical mood in songs, attracts child’s attention to the most important character or event, forming new hybrid words to convey extra connotations, participating in wordplay such as pun or parody, developing mental activity, linguistic intuition and social communicative skills.
 Keywords: Onomatopoeia, language development, pragmatic potential, semantic and functional feature, animated movies for children.
Highlights
Contemporary linguistic studies pay special attention to texts designed for young audience which can make a great influence on their personality, account for language development and the formation of world image
Our research comprises the ontolinguistic specifics of the texts within animated movies for children, and more precisely, the pragmatic potential of onomatopoeic words that are very typical within this particular movie discourse
We aim to investigate the pragmatic role of onomatopoeia from the viewpoint of its semantic, pragmatic and linguistic characteristics
Summary
Contemporary linguistic studies pay special attention to texts designed for young audience which can make a great influence on their personality, account for language development and the formation of world image. This interest is proved true by the increasing number of recent theoretical works in culture studies, stylistics, semantics and the theory of communication. In some latest studies, animated movie discourse is considered to be the most promising and showing a great potential for further investigation. Our research comprises the ontolinguistic specifics of the texts within animated movies for children, and more precisely, the pragmatic potential of onomatopoeic words that are very typical within this particular movie discourse. We aim to investigate the pragmatic role of onomatopoeia from the viewpoint of its semantic, pragmatic and linguistic characteristics
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