A Study of Applied Strategies in Translating Idiomatic Expressions in Two Movie Subtitles: Bring It On & Mean Girls

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Mahmood Hashemian ¹ , Atefeh Arezi ²

1 - Shahrekord University
2 - Department of Foreign Languages, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2017-10-17

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