Assessing the Quality of Persian Translation of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Based on House’s Model: Overt-Covert Translation Distinction

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Hossein Heidari Tabrizi ¹ , Azizeh Chalak ² , Amir Hossein Taherioun ³

1 - Department of Foreign Languages, Khorasgan (Isfahan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Department of Foreign Languages, Khorasgan (Isfahan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Department of Foreign Languages, Khorasgan (Isfahan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2011-11-12 Accepted : 2012-02-09 Published : 2013-06-01

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