French - An Accommodating Language?: Le Francais: Langue d'Accueil?

The noted linguist Henriette Walter is a well known media figure in France, who has used her extensive range of scholarly work to take a stance in the current debate on the French language and to debunk the idea that the language is under threat. She shows that French has always been an accommodating language - une langue d'accueil - taking in words from many different sources. This bilingual volume makes Mme Walter's approach accessible to English speakers and provides reactions to it from a number of scholars working in British universities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853595047
• ISBN13: 9781853595042
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 144 Pages