this study aimed to assess the quality of persian translation of orwell's (1949) nineteen eighty-four by balooch (2004) based on house's (1997) model of translation quality assessment. to do so, 23 pages (about 10 percent) of the source text were randomly selected. the profile of the source text register was produced and the genre was realized. the source text profile was compared to the transl...

George Orwell in his then futuristic novel '1984' coined the term doublethink to define that state of mind in which an individual holds and believes two conflicting views at the same time. While my participation in the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), held on 5-8 November 1995, should have been a joyful renewal of old friendships intermixed with learning recent a...

This article develops a basic tool for stylistic metaphor analysis to assess the role of creative metaphors in a corpus of political speeches. Starting with a general discussion of creativity in political discourse it provides a definition and six basic strategies of creative metaphor uses. This definition and the strategies allow the identification of creative and conventional metaphors in spe...