Quality Assessment of English-into-Persian Translations of Tourism Management Academic Textbooks

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Amirhossein Imanizadeh ¹ (MA Student of the Department of Foreign Languages, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)
Mir Saeed Mousavi Razavi ² (Assistant Professor of the Department of English Translation Studies, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2020-02-15 Accepted : 2020-02-15 Published : 2019-10-01

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