An Analysis of Audiovisual Subtitling Translation Focusing on Wordplays from English into Persian in the Friends TV Series

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Samira Afsari ¹ , Elahe Abootorabi ² , Seyed Nezamaddin Moeinzadeh ³

1 - English Department, Kerman Institute of Higher Education, Kerman, Iran.
2 - Department of English, Kerman Institute of Higher Education, Kerman, Iran
3 - English Department, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran.

Received: 2018-10-03 Accepted : 2018-10-03 Published : 2018-04-01

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