Media French: A Guide to Contemporary French Idiom with English Translations

Libraries can now offer several important French newspapers in electronic and paper format. Le Monde is available on both CD‐ROM and the Internet, while selections from Libération and the full text of L’Humanité including archives, are to be found on the Internet. An up‐to‐date guide to the lexis used by the French media will be useful along with a good dictionary whatever format readers prefer. Adrian Ritchie (University of Wales, Bangor) produced such a work, Newspaper French in 1990. He now offers the more comprehensive, substantial and updated Media French, a guide to contemporary vocabulary of the quality press,...