Media French: A Vocabulary of Contemporary Usage (University of Wales Press - Media Languages): A Guide to Contemporary French Idiom - Softcover

Adrian C. Ritchie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0708320988 ISBN 13: 9780708320983

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2008

Synopsis

This up-to-the-minute guide to French idiom will be invaluable for readers who have a solid foundation in French and who wish to increase their confidence in using the idioms of the contemporary French language which they hear and read in today s press and media. Aimed at advanced learners of French, translators, interpreters or anyone following current affairs, Media French: A Vocabulary of Contemporary Usage is designed to supplement a good French-English dictionary by providing translated headwords of key idiom as encountered in social, political, economic, legal and journalistic usage. In addition, after each headword a selection of actual examples taken from the quality press is provided, giving clear, concise and contemporary examples of its use. Readers who are already familiar with the French language will be encouraged to go beyond mere understanding of contemporary French, and to feel confident of being able to comprehend, speak and write convincingly in the French idiom of the 21st century.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Adrian Ritchie is former Head of French, Department of Modern Languages, Bangor University and the author of Newspaper French (UWP, 1990), French for Administration, Business and Commerce (UWP, 1993), Media French (UWP, 1997), A Selection of the Political Journalism of Guy de Maupassant (Peter Lang, 1999), Selected Chroniques by Guy de Maupassant (1881-1889) (Lang, 2001), A Further Selection of the Chroniques of Guy de Maupassant (Lang, 2003).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0708320988
• ISBN 13: 9780708320983
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192