Analyzing French Onomatopoeia in Webtoon ‘Wonderwall’ by Sena Loli

The technology development has started a new page. Webtoon is one form of technology development. Webtoon is an image that has a story, or commonly we called as comics and published to the internet. We can read a webtoon using an application on our phone. LINE webtoon is one of the digital comic reading application that can be accessed for free and has many different titles and genres. This research is a qualitative study which was aimed to describe the type and meaning of onomatopoeia in webtoon. The subject of this research is webtoon entitled ‘Wonderwall’ episode 1-10 by SenaLoli, which had been translated into French. Then, analysis of data uses an integral method to describe the type and meaning of onomatopoeia simultaneously. The results of the analysis showed that in webtoon ‘Wonderwall’ by SenaLoli there are five types of onomatopoeia that is 1) onomatopoeia that imitate the sound of human, 2) onomatopoeia that imitates the sound of animal, 3) onomatopoeia that imitate the sound of nature, 4) onomatopoeia that imitates the sound of object, 5) onomatopoeia that imitate the sound of daily human activities. There are four meanings of onomatopoeia that used in the webtoon 1) onomatopoeia as an indicator of the situation, 2) onomatopoeia as a forming of the character emotions, 3) onomatopoeia as a forming the name of actions, and 4) onomatopoeia to give a certain effect for the reader.