by Henriette Walter · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221052549
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«Le français dans tous les sens» is Henriette Walter's essay on the French language, published by Robert Laffont in 1988 (384 pages, in French).
The work traces the history of French from its Gallic and Frankish heritage to its expansion across America, Africa, Asia and Oceania, and analyses the role of the Academy, the school and the media. It also examines vocabulary, spelling, pronunciation, dialects, argots, franglais and wordplay.
With a preface by André Martinet, it includes a bibliography and indexes and belongs to the La Fontaine des sciences collection.
For students of French philology and readers interested in the evolution and the geographical and social varieties of the language.
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Henriette Walter is a French linguist, emeritus professor of French at the University of Rennes 2, and director of the Phonology Laboratory at the École pratique des hautes études at the Sorbonne. She is known for both her specialized academic work and her popular linguistics publications.
