Semantic Prosody: Its Knowledge and Appropriate Selection of Equivalents

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aida elahi ¹ , Mohammad Rahbar ²

1 - Department of English, Quchan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Quchan, Iran
2 - Department of English, Quchan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Quchan, Iran

Received: 2017-11-01 Accepted : 2018-05-11 Published : 2018-09-01

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