Collocations as a fascinating linguistic phenomenon reflect the linguistic, stylistic and cultural features of any languages.The importance of collocations, the syntactic and semantic patterns they follow in a language and in the translation of literary texts, the way(s)in which they are translated, would be the matter of investigation in this book.This book attempts to shed light on the nature of the differences in collocational patterning of Persian and English languages.Based on a careful content analysis of eleven Persian texts(nontranslated)and their translations(translated texts)from...