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Qur’anic Metaphors and Their English and Persian Translations: Dead or Alive?
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the present study aims at discussing whether metaphors in the qur’an, revealed more than 1400 years ago, are dead, moribund or live and how these three types of metaphors have been translated in three english and three persian translations of the qur’an. the results reveal that among 70 metaphors examined, while only about 32.85% are live metaphors, about 67.14% are moribund, but none of the ca...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nordic Journal of English Studies
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1654-6970
DOI: 10.35360/njes.45