A Study of Translators’ Approach in Dealing with Culture-specific Items in Translation of Children’s Fantasy Fiction

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Asma Sabermahani ¹ , Azita Ghazizade ²

1 - Department of foreign languages, Faculty of literature and humanities, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran
2 - Department of foreign languages, Faculty of literature and humanities, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran

Received: 2017-05-07 Accepted : 2017-07-17 Published : 2017-08-01

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