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Privileged, rich and self-centred, Amedea's passion is for Venice, the city of her birth. Her marriage to an English architect has begun to founder as passion is replaced by domesticity. But in Gerard Charry, a French lecturer, Amedea sees someone to fulfil her dreams of love.
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• 1. Acknowledgements--
• 2. Preface (by Blanche-Benveniste, Claire)--
• 3.
• 1. The C-ORAL-ROM resource (by Moneglia, Massimo)--
• 4.
• 2. The Italian corpus (by Cresti, Emanuela)--
• 5.
• 3. The French corpus (by Campione, Estelle)--
• 6.
• 4. The Spanish corpus (by Moreno-Sandoval, Antonio)--
• 7.
• 5. The Portuguese corpus (by Bacelar do Nascimento, Maria Fernanda)--
• 8.
• 6. Notes on lexical strategy, structural strategies and surface clause indexes in the C-ORAL-ROM spoken corpora (by Cresti, Emanuela)--
• 9.
• 7. Appendix (by Moneglia, Massimo)--
• 10. Bibliography.
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The C-ORAL-ROM book and DVD provide a unique set of comparable corpora of spontaneous speech for the main Romance languages, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The corpora are accompanied by comparative linguistic studies, models and standard linguistic measures of spoken language variability. Each corpus is built to the same design using identical sampling techniques, and each corpus is presented in multimedia format, allowing simultaneous access to aligned acoustic and textual information. Texts are headed with information about provenance, participants, etc. and the transcriptions show changes of speaker. Speech acts are tagged according to the evidence of prosodic criteria. Each corpus totals 300,000 words and presents formal and informal speech in a variety of contexts of use, dialogue structure and text genres, semantic domains and speech act typologies. The corpora have great statistical relevance for spoken language structures and can address key issues in human language technology such as speech recognition in unrestricted discourse, the suitability of speech synthesis in natural prosody, and multilingual applications of the spoken language interface. The work provides new data and innovative theoretical perspectives that are relevant for corpus linguistics, romance linguistics, syntactic theory, speech and prosody research, and second language acquisition.
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ELLE ONES TO WATCH 2019 'Beautifully written, mysterious and compelling' JANET FITCH 'If Joan Didion had written about the BDSM community in LA it may have felt a bit like Permission' LIT HUB MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019 'Stunning. Beautifully written, and a delicate portrayal of multiple slippery aspects of sexuality' STOYA 'Formidable in its elegance and fierce in its simplicity, Saskia Vogel's writing leaves the reader stunned and moved and wanting more.' ANDREA SCRIMA, AUTHOR OF A LESSER DAY '[A] quietly transgressive tale of desire, love, loneliness, restraint and connection. The writing is fresh and minimal and the characters full of longing. A blistering debut for fans of Mary Gaitskill and A. M. Homes' SARAH JANE ROBERTS 'Wonderful' JENNIFER CROFT, MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE WINNING TRANSLATOR, 2018 'Permission excavates the uncertain landscape that lies just beneath the Hollywood dream factory we think we all know and against all odds finds something sacred there.' RYAN RUBY, AUTHOR OF THE ZERO AND THE ONE * * * A raw, fresh, haunting, emotionally and sexually honest literary debut. When Echo's father gets swept away by a freak current off the Los Angeles coast, she finds herself sinking into a complete state of paralysis. With no true friends and a troubled relationship with her mother, the failed young actress attempts to seek solace in the best way she knows: by losing herself in the lives of strangers. When by chance Echo meets a dominatrix called Orly, it finally feels like she might have found someone who will be nurturing and treasure her for who she is. But Orly's fifty-something houseboy, Piggy, isn't quite ready to let someone else share the intimate relationship he's worked so hard to form with his mistress. Permission is a love story about people who are sick with dreams and expectations and turn to the erotic for comfort and cure. As they stumble through the landscape of desire, they are in a desperate search for the answer to that sacred question: how do I want to be loved?
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"Elle vient de te dire adieu tout doucement. Elle vient de te dire adieu par paliers successifs. D'abord, au cinéma. Dans la salle obscure, sa main répondait à peine aux pressions que tu exerçais sur la sienne. Bien sûr - officiellement -, vous n'étiez plus ensemble. Mais vous vous voyiez toujours aussi souvent. Peut-être même encore avec plus de bonheur. Vous avez dîné accoudés au bar de sa cuisine. À un moment, elle a prononcé cette phrase : "II va bien falloir que tu refasses ta vie un jour ou l'autre." Et puis, celle-ci, juste après, en te caressant l'épaule : "Cela va te faire du bien de tomber amoureux de quelqu'un d'autre."" Dans ces nouvelles, Nicolas Rey explore tous les visages de l'amour. Le mal vieilli, le fantasmé, le hurlé, le caressant. Ses personnages se passent le relais, de main en main, s'accrochant à ce qui leur permet de ne pas sombrer, à cet unique sentiment: l'amour."--Page 4 of cover.

BBC Radio 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME from 17-28 July. From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel about learning how to listen and how to feel; and about second chances and choosing to be brave despite the odds. Because in the end, music can save us all ... 1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as long as it's vinyl he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need. Then into his life walks Ilse Brauchmann. Ilse asks Frank to teach her about music. His instinct is to turn and run. And yet he is drawn to this strangely still, mysterious woman with her pea-green coat and her eyes as black as vinyl. But Ilse is not what she seems. And Frank has old wounds that threaten to re-open and a past he will never leave behind ... LISTEN WHILE YOU READ! The Music Shop is BBC Radio 4's BOOK AT BEDTIME. And you can find specially collated The Music Shop playlists for Father Anthony, Kit, Maud and Hector on Spotify. This hardback edition is beautifully produced, with stunning decorated insides.
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From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel about learning how to listen and how to feel; and about second chances and choosing to be brave despite the odds. Because in the end, music can save us all ... 1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as long as it's vinyl he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need. Then into his life walks Ilse Brauchmann. Ilse asks Frank to teach her about music. His instinct is to turn and run. And yet he is drawn to this strangely still, mysterious woman with her pea-green coat and her eyes as black as vinyl. But Ilse is not what she seems. And Frank has old wounds that threaten to re-open and a past he will never leave behind ... LISTEN WHILE YOU READ! Follow the following links for specially collated The Music Shop playlists: The Music Shop playlist: bit.ly/TheMusicShopPlaylist Father Anthony: bit.ly/FatherAnthonyPlaylist Kit: bit.ly/KitsPlaylist Maud: bit.ly/MaudsPlaylist Hector: bit.ly/HectorsPlaylist.
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