Applying Catford’s Category Shifts to the Persian Translations of Three English Romantic Poems

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Samad Mirza Suzani ¹

1 - Department of English, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran

Received: 2018-10-03 Accepted : 2018-10-03 Published : 2018-04-01

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