ADVISER

Many people have contributed to this dissertation in so many ways. To all these people, I would like to express my genuine thanks and my gratitude. First, I would like to express my deep gratitude to my adviser Jeanette Gundel for sharing her expertise and her time to help complete this work. Her insightful suggestions and comments on different drafts of this dissertation challenged my thinking, helped me to have a better understanding of how to use theoretical tools to explain my findings, and encouraged me to keep pushing the boundaries of my work. I also like to thank members of my dissertation committee for the valuable feedback and suggestions at various stages of my research: Bruce Downing, with whom I share a passion for translation and interpreting and who has offered advice and support in other aspects of life and scholarship beyond this dissertation, Nancy Stenson fo