Semantic Adequacy in Translation: Strategies employed in the English renderings of Sa'di's wittical remarks of The Rose Garden (Golistan)

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Marzieh Rahaei ¹ , Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi ²

1 - English Department, Shahreza Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahreza, Iran
2 - English Department, Shahreza Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahreza, Iran

Received: 2019-02-09 Accepted : 2019-07-20 Published : 2019-12-01

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