СROSS-CULTURAL ASPECT OF VERBAL AND NONVERBAL REFLECTIONS OF ONOMATOPOEIC WORDS

It is undeniable that there are certainly some challenges in understanding and transferring the real meaning of onomatopoeic words from one language to another. In this article it is analyzed the possible translations of onomatopoeic items seen in poems in both English and Uzbek from lexical point of view. At the same time onomatopoeias are investigated in terms of semantics since the way the onomatopoeic words are given may not directly match the real function.