Topicalization in English Translation of the Holy Quran: A Comparative Study

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Soheila Mohammadpour ¹ , Jahanbakhsh Nikoopour ²

1 - Department of Foreign languages, Islamic Azad University; Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of English Language Teaching, Islamic Azad University; North Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2017-06-04 Accepted : 2017-07-17 Published : 2017-08-01

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