CONFIDENT FRENCH from A to Z
A Dictionary of Niceties and Pitfalls
Published on 5. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-908420-18-3 (ISBN)
Description
An easy guide to the subtleties of modern French usage by Dr Michael Abecassis of the University of Oxford, illustrated with one hundred and twenty-five drawings by Igor Bratusek (Sorbonne). Presented in dictionary form (with all necessary translations) and invaluable for all levels of French language ability. - A sure cure for doubt.
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Language
English
French
Place of publication
Ireland
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
125 Black and White Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
266 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908420-18-3 (9781908420183)
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Dr Michael Abecassis (DEA Grenoble, DLang St Andrews) is Senior Instructor in French and a college lecturer at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on French linguistics and cinema. His publications include: The Representation of Parisian Speech in the Cinema of the 1930s (Peter Lang, 2005); Le francais parle au XXIeme siecle, in two volumes (L'Harmattan, 2008), with Laure Ayosso and Elodie Vialleton; Les Voix des Francais in two volumes (Peter Lang, 2010); Ecarts et apports des medias francophones : Lexique et grammaire (Peter Lang, 2013); and FRENCH CINEMA IN CLOSE-UP - a dictionary of French cinema actors (Phaeton, 2015) with Marcelline Block.