La influencia de las formas inarticuladas, interjecciones y onomatopeyas inglesas en los tebeos españoles

Abstract

The attempts at classifying interjections, onomatopoeias and inarticulated forms have not turned out satisfactory, as there is no taxonomy that is widely accepted. Taking as basis previous studies, the present piece of work intends to revise these phenomena in so genuine Spanish comics as Mortadelo y Filemón, Zipi y Zape, Super López, Bruguelandia and TBO. To do so, a corpus of lexical units including inarticulated sounds, interjections and onomatopoeias is compiled in order to examine whether the units used in the comics correspond to the representation of that articulated sound, that interjection or that onomatopoeia in their English form or in their Spanish form. This will allow us to draw conclusions on the possible influence of the English language in the Spanish comics through the classification of the units compiled in the corpus, even if they are not translations but national productions, and possibly, we will be able to determine up to what extent these forms could be understood on the part of a Spanish speaker without the graphic aid of the comic-strip.