An Investigation into the Use of Category Shifts in the Persian Translation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Samad Mirza Suzani ¹

1 - Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, English Department, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht Branch, Iran

Received: 2019-07-03 Accepted : 2019-07-03 Published : 2019-01-01

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