Abstract:
The actuality of the study is determined by the communicative significance and frequency of the use of onomatopoeic lexis in modern Korean, its degree of representation in the national picture of the world, and, above all, in the colloquial end everyday style of Korean language. The purpose of the study is to comprehensively research the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of onomatopoeia in modern linguistics in general and the material of modern Korean in particular. The principal method is the method of systematic (field-control) study and description of languages and cultures, which is the basis for a comprehensive study of language as an expression of cultural values, as well as the structural method used in the method of component analysis, which involved the decomposition of values into the smallest basic components of semantic content words that is called seme.
