Quality Assessment of the Persian Translation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men Based on Waddington’s Model of Translation: Application of Method A

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Zivar Derakhshi ¹ , Sajjad Khorrami Fard ²

1 - MA in Translation Studies, English Department, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran
2 - MA in Translation Studies, English Department, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran

Received: 2019-11-10 Accepted : 2019-11-10 Published : 2019-07-01

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