A Lecture on Onomatopoeia

On 27 October, I had an opportunity to talk on onomatopoeia at Shimokitazawa Seitoku senior high school. 2 periods(100 minutes) are allotted for this special lecture, for the students (and teachers) of Global Education Course. As I am not a researcher on onomatopoeia nor a linguist, my lecture was focused on "the international understanding" making use of my experience. Here are (some of) the images that I prepared as a guide for the lecture. I thank all the participants for listening to me earnestly, I hope the non-native speakers of Japanese also enjoyed the time.

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In Japan, we use the word "onomatopée" for both
onomatopoeia and mimetic words,
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Onomatopoeias can be found anywhere in our daily life. They are catchy, fluid, flexible.....
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Mimetic words are hard to explain; let's see "goro-goro" which has several meanings.
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There are various onomatopoeias for the food texture "crispy",
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"Connect the onomatopoeia to (which you think) its corresponding image"~~~from the questionnaire to the non-native speakers.
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Introducing onomatopoeia can be a good start of conversation. Onomatopoeia stimulates to think about the origin of the word.