The Exploitation of Translation in Talking Customers into Purchasing Products: A Critical Investigation of English-Persian Advertising Brochures for Household Appliances

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Abolfazl Shahali ¹

1 - Visiting Assistant professor of Linguistics, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood Branch

Received: 2019-02-27 Accepted : 2019-02-27 Published : 2018-10-01

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