A Comparative Study on the English to Persian Translation of Hedges in the Abstracts of M.A. Theses in English Translation Studies

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Elham Azarbad ¹ , Vahid Ghahraman ²

1 - MA candidate in English Language Translation Studies, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor of Applied linguistics/TESL at Iran Encyclopedia Compiling Foundation, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-11-17 Accepted : 2018-11-17 Published : 2018-07-01

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