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3.1. The Categories of Informativity and Presupposition

1. 
   What type of information is the publication in question characterized by?
   
2. 
   Divide the factual information of the extract into conceptual paragraphs. Briefly summarize each of them, making up an outline, the items of which serving as key points of each paragraph.
   
3. 
   Are there any facts of socio-historic and/or cultural character relevant in terms of the category of presupposition? Comment on the background information underlying them, for this purpose answer the questions that follow.
   
4. 
   What historical events is the city of York associated with?
   
5. 
   What do you know about the tradition to celebrate Guy Fawkes Night in Great Britain? When is the holiday held? What historical event does the celebration stem from? What are the festive procedures and activities?
   

3.2. The Category of Cohesion

1. 
   What words can be treated as the main key-word holding together the logico-semantic wholeness of the article? Explain your choice. In what way does their recurrence contribute to the integrity of the text?
   
2. 
   What words and word-combinations are logically connected with the key-word “fire” and form the corresponding thematic group?
   
3. 
   What role do the terms of economics play in the lexical cohesion of the text?
   
4. 
   Distinguish thematic groups of words and word-combinations united by the common notion of:
   
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     people’s professions and occupations
     
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     places and locations
     
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     medical treatment
     
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     inflammable materials, and others.
     
5. 
   Find lexical units pertaining to the lexico-semantic groups of a) verbs of speaking; b) verbs of firemen’s activities connected with the fire extinguishing.
   
6. 
   Comment on the role synonyms proper and contextual synonyms play in the lexical cohesion of the text.
   
7. 
   How does antonymy (both antonyms proper and contextual ones) reinforce the lexical cohesion of the newspaper writing?
   
8. 
   How do word-building means, namely affixation and compounding, reinforce the lexical cohesion of the text?
   
9. 
   Through what associative-semantic strings of words and word-combinations is the lexical cohesion of the text also achieved?
   
10. 
    How do means of supraphrasal cohesion, i.e. different adverbial connectors, contribute to the perception of the newspaper writing as a logico-semantic whole?
    

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  Compose and write a coherent essay summing up your observations on the linguostylistic and textlinguistic peculiarities of the newspaper text “Blaze at charity bonfire damages warehouses”.