Translation of Anthroponyms in Children’s Cartoons: A Comparative Analysis of English Dialogues and Persian Subtitles

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Samira Sharei ¹ , Elham Yazdanmehr ² , Aida Firooziyan Pour Esfahani ³

1 - Faculty of Humanities, Department of English Language Studies, Imam Reza University of Mashhad, Iran
2 - Faculty of Humanities, Department of English Language Studies, Imam Reza University of Mashhad, Iran
3 - Faculty of Humanities, Department of English Language Studies, Imam Reza University of Mashhad, Iran

Received: 2017-09-28 Accepted : 2017-12-24 Published : 2017-12-01

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