Media French : A Vocabulary of Contemporary Usage. This item is unavailable.Media French : A Vocabulary of Contemporary Usage

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.

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).