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Download full textAbbasi, Atefeh; Koosha, Mansour – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The present study aimed to investigate the frequency of the use of two semantic adjustment strategies; namely, expansion and reduction, in the two English translations of book one of "Masnavi." For this purpose, 300 lines of "Masnavi" by Rumi (2014) along its two corresponding English translations by Nicholson (2004) and…
Descriptors: Translation, English, Semantics, Poetry
Epoge, Napoleon – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The meaning of some phrasal verbs can be guessed from the meanings of the parts (to sit down = sit + down, run after = run + after) and the meaning of some others have to be learned (to put up (a visitor) = accommodate, to hold up = cause delay or try to rob someone) due to their syntactic and semantic complexities. In this regard, the syntactic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure
Méndez, David I.; Alcaraz, M. Ángeles – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
In this study, we carry out a qualitative and quantitative analysis of abbreviations in 300 randomly collected research paper titles published in the most prestigious European and US-based Astrophysics journals written in English. Our main results show that the process of shortening words and groups of words is one of the most characteristic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Memory, Scholarship, Periodicals
