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French
LIBRARY RESOURCES for FRE230
French for Business
Course description
This is an essentially communicative course designed to allow students to function in both oral and written French commercial activities. Topics covered include correspondence, report writing, form filling, the reading of contracts, and interacting and negotiating with clients.
Reference material
Internet sites. Browser fees will apply.

French for business & economics : the Internet sourcebook. Patricia R Paulsell and Stéphanie Barragán. clear.msu.edu/teaching/sourcebooks/pagebusfrench/busfrench.html
A useful portal to business in different French-speaking locations, produced by Michigan State University.

BBC Education : Make French your business, 
www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/french/business/index.shtml

Les echos:  le web de l'economie, www.lesechos.fr

Le Monde diplomatique, www.monde-diplomatique.fr/

Fenetres sur la France : La page française de l'Université de San Diego, home.sandiego.edu/~mmagnin/affaires.html (Scroll down for lots of useful business links)

Business French dictionary : French-English, English-French. Rev. ed. Teddington : P. Collin, 1995.
GENERAL LIBRARY Not to be borrowed 382.03 B97

Business French dictionary, Peter Collin Publishing [electronic resource]. Teddington, England : P. Collin, 1995.
e-book xreferplus

The Chartered Management Institute dictionary of business and management. London : Bloomsbury, 2003.
GENERAL LIBRARY Business Reference 658.003 C48

The Coopers & Lybrand multilingual dictionary of financial reporting : English, Deutsch, Espanñol, Français, Italiano. Edited by Ian Angus, Peter Donaghy, John Laidler.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 657.303 A59, TAMAKI LIBRARY Reference332.03 A59

Dictionnaire d'analyse économique : Microéconomie, macroéconomie, théorie des jeux, etc. Bernard Guerrien. 3e éd. rev. et augmentée. Paris : Découverte, 2002.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 330.03 G92

Dictionnaire de l'économie, de la finance et de la comptabilité : (anglais/français et français/anglais). Marie-Claude Esposito. 2nd ed. Paris : Economica, c2002.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 330.3 E777

Dictionnaire économique de l'anglais et du Français : budget et financement de l'État (France, Royaume-Uni, États-Unis). [Edité sur la direction de Philippe Parini et Alain Vienney]. Paris : La Documentation française, c1997.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 330.03 D545

Elsevier's dictionary of financial terms in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Dutch. Diana Phillips. Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1997.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 332.03 P55

Elsevier's economics dictionary : in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German. Compiled by J.L. de Lucca. Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier Science, 2001.
GENERAL LIBRARY Business Reference 330.03 L93

The French code of commerce and most usual commercial laws : with a theoretical and practical commentary, and a compendium of the judicial organisation and of the course of procedure before the tribunals of commerce, together with the text of the law, the most recent decisions of the courts, and a glossary of French judicial terms. Leopold Goirand. Holmes Beach, Fla. : Gaunt, 1999.
DAVIS LAW LIBRARY KV1227 GOI 1880r

Harrap finance dictionary : English-French, French-English. Edited by Gearóid Cronin. Edinburgh : Harrap, 2000.
GENERAL LIBRARY Business Reference 332.03 H29

Harrap French business management dictionary. James Coveney, Sheila J. Moore. Edinburgh : Harrap, 1999.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 658.003 C87

Harrap's business : dictionary/dictionnaire : English-French/Français-Anglais. [project manager and English lexicographer, Anna Stevenson ; French lexicographer, Georges Pilard]. Edinburgh : Harrap, 2003.
GENERAL LIBRARY Business Reference 650.3 H29 2003

Lexique analogique. Jacques Dubé. Ottawa : Travaux publics et services gouvernementaux, Canada, Bureau de la traduction, c1997. [Government report writing, Dictionaries]
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 443 D814

The Oxford business French dictionary : French-English, English-French. Edited by Marianne Chalmers, Martine Pierquin. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 650.03 R86 2002 and *e-resource

Vocabulaire de la gestion des finances publiques = Vocabulary of government finance management. Yolande Bernard, Samek Janowski. Ottawa : Groupe Communication Canada, 1997.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 336.003 B52

Catalogue searching

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Librarysearch Voyager
french language business
french language commerce
industr* or financ* or commerc* AND "french language"
Examples of Keyword Boolean searches
french and language and business
french and language and commerce
(industr? or financ? or commerc?) and "french language"

Subject Heading searches
Searches using Library of Congress Subject Headings work only if you use the subject heading, and usually American spelling is required. To find information on individual people, use the surname as a subject heading search
French language Business French | Social aspects
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Gesture Cross-cultural studies
Nonverbal communication Cross-cultural studies
France Foreign economic relations New Zealand
New Zealand Foreign economic relations France
Negotiation in business France
Europe Economic integration
Business Dictionaries French
Commercial correspondence, French

Themes & topics
Report writing
Le résumé, le compte rendu, la synthèse. Ghislaine Cotentin-Rey. Paris : CLE international, 1995.
GENERAL LIBRARY 448.2 C84

Letter writing 
La correspondance. S. Gérard, P. Lièvremont, V. Ladka. Paris : Nathan, 1992.
GENERAL LIBRARY 448.2 G35

La correspondance : 500 modèles de lettres. Paris : Larousse, c1999.
GENERAL LIBRARY 448.2 C52

Correspondance facile : modèles de lettres : correspondance privée et courrier d'affaires. Jacques Verdol. Paris : Hachette, 1997.
GENERAL LIBRARY 448.24 V48

Language
Manual of business French : a comprehensive language guide
. Stuart Williams and Nathalie McAndrew-Cazorla. New York : Routledge, 1996.
GENERAL LIBRARY 448.24 W72

Indexing databases
Use NetAccount to access the following databases.
This is a select listing.
ABI/INFORM Global FULL TEXT indexes and abstracts over 1,400 business and economics journals, magazines, and trade publications. In addition, it provides the full text and/or page images of the articles from about half of these periodicals.

Business Source Premier FULL TEXT provides cumulative indexing and abstracting for more than 4000 periodicals with full text content for over 3,000 titles ranging from general business magazines to academic journals.
 
Expanded Academic FULL TEXTcontains indexed and full-text academic journals, magazines and newspapers. Includes arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology, with unique fulltext holdings of titles such as Sartre studies international and Michigan academician

Academic Research Library FULL TEXT Covers a broad range of subjects including arts, humanities,  multi-cultural issues and the social sciences.

Academic Search Premier FULL TEXT Provides indexing and abstracting for more than 7,000 journals, with full-text coverage for almost 4,000 titles. Covers a wide range of subject areas: social sciences, arts and literature, science, multi-cultural studies, and more.
File last updated : February 12, 2009

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