131 A Cross- Cultural Study of Animal Symbolism in the Persian ...

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ISSN 2240‐0524                   Journal of Educational and  Social Research                  Vol. 2 (1) January 2012      131 A Cross- Cultural Study of Animal Symbolism in the Persian Translations of Children's Literature Hossein Vahid Dasterdi Associate Professor in University of Isfahan, Iran E-mail: Zahra Haghshenas Graduate student of Translation in University of Isfahan, Iran E-mail: Doi: 10.5901/jesr.2012.02.01.131 Abstract Animals are among culture-bound items which make the translation practice a difficult task for translators and need specific considerations on the part of the translators.

• foreignization
• worldliness
• symbol of wisdom
• domestication
• fox
• cultural terms
• translator
• animals
• translation
• strategy