Well known for various volumes on administrative, business, commercial and media French, Adrian Ritchie has produced another highly welcome companion to these areas of the French language. As a revised version of his original Newspaper French (University of Wales Press, 1990), this is an excellent resource for advanced students of French with a particular interest in the kinds of specialised usages of vocabulary encountered in the media and written press. It provides translated headwords of key idioms frequently employed in legal, social, economic, political and journalistic French. It is modern and up-to-date, and has the added advantage that the translated headwords are accompanied by authentic illustrative examples taken from quality journalism, which further inform readers of the specificities of usage of the terms. In addition, there is a highly useful list of common acronyms and abbreviations - from AFNOR to ZUP - and a succinct guide to how to approach the use of the vocabulary, explaining how the entries are arranged and ordered, and how cross-referencing has been used to facilitate comparative and contrastive perspectives on usages of individual terms. All in all, there can be hardly anything to quarrel with in such a project, which will doubtless greatly facilitate the lives of generations of students struggling with the kinds of text used in language teaching in more contemporary-minded institutions, as well as anyone who needs to better understand (or translate) contemporary media French for professional purposes of any nature.
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