Analyzing Translation Errors of Trainee Translators: A Case Study on Tourism Promotional Material.
The present study aims to scrutinize the trainee translators' errors in their translations of tourism promotional material, a brochure, from Turkish into English. Thus, this study is designed as a descriptive qualitative research and corroborated with quantitative analysis, presenting a thorough ana...
| Published in: | Çankaya University Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 92 - 110 |
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Cankaya University Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences
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