Assignment 4 (Semantic analysis: Practical issue) Choose various pieces of texts (They might be short stories or economic/political/social/etc discourses, speeches) and make their analysis based on the questions below

ASSIGNMENT 4 (Semantic analysis: Practical issue)
Choose various pieces of texts (They might be short stories or economic/political/social/etc. discourses, speeches) and make their analysis based on the questions below.

Questions: 
a) Find homonyms in the texts: give their classification (homophones, homographs, etc.) and explain the differences in their meanings.
b) Find neologisms, archaisms, nonce-words, euphemisms, dysphemisms, slangs, vulgar words, international words, etc. State their function in the texts.
c) Find phraseological units in the text: give their classification and define their functions. Look for idioms, proverbs and sayings in the texts.
d) Give etymological analysis of words (borrowed, native). Find out the language they came from (origin and source), degree of assimilation of the borrowed words (fully or partially assimilated words).
e) Analyze the following semantic characteristics of words in the texts: affixation, compounding, conversion, shortening.