On Flexible Use of Onomatopoeic Words in Modern Chinese and Its Causes

The onomatopoeic words in modern Chinese are quite flexible in use. This is mainly showed in their forms of
reduplication, multi-function and varieties. A great amount of language materials have proved that the flexibility of onomato- poeic words have a lot of causes, which mainly include differences of perceptive subjects and influence of context. Such flexibil-
ity has its own positive functions as well as the negative ones. We should know this exactly and play its best expressive effect in use.