Foreign Language Study : French

More than your average phrasebook, this portable title shows you how to be a well-mannered visitor and speak the local language in the correct context. Any phrasebook can give you a line listing of essential phrases. But if you use a phrase or term without knowing the correct way to use it, you can find yourself in an embarrassing situation. Perfect Phrases in French for Confident Travel addresses this problem expertly. Yes, you get the basics but you get a lot more background and guidance on how to use these words and phrases correctly without making a faux pas. With the confidence that you are using a phrase correctly, you will enjoy a smoother adventure in France. more...

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Whether preparing for a vacation or a business trip, The Pocket Idiot's Guide(tm) to French Phrases, Second Edition, provides travelers with all the phrases they need (and none they don't) to communicate with native French speakers. In addition to giving readers phrases to help them travel, shop, dine, sightsee, bank, mail, and conduct business, this revised edition includes a new chapter on dealing with emergencies and two additional chapters on grammar. € French is spoken by more than 125 million people and in over 43 countries around the world. € France is the world's top tourist destination, and French is the second most frequently taught language in the world. € French is the foreign language spoken by our largest trading partner (Canada) more...

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The Romanistisches Jahrbuch (RJb) is the only scholarly journal to regularly provide information about the representation of Romance languages, literature and cultural studies at German and Austrian universities. It systematically compiles accepted doctoral dissertations and postdoctoral theses, as well as projects currently in progress at German-speaking universities. The first section of the annual features current reviews. In addition, essays on central questions from linguistics and literary studies regarding one single or several Romance languages are published. The second section is dedicated to current problems concerning the Iberoromance languages (Spanish/Portuguese within and outside of Europe, Catalan). more...

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Taboos are expressive indicators of the location of a society in its cultural history. Linguistic taboos in particular can be approached via euphemisms, which are observed and interpreted here in a comparison between French and Italian. Their raison d'être is explained from the perspective of cultural and mental history, and from the perspective of the history of motifs they are anchored in fields ranging from the magical and religious via the ethical and aesthetic and the politically correct through to an "ethics without morality". In this, the sources, motives and functions of the phenomenon of the euphemism are considered separately and then brought together in an overall interpretation. more...

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Concise, accessible guide to the syntax of Modern French, showing its contribution to syntactic theory. more...

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