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3.1. The Categories of Informativity and Presupposition
1. What type of information is the publication in question charcaterised 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. Find the facts of social and cultural character (if any) relevant in terms of the category of presupposition commenting on the background information underlying them. For this purpose answer the questions that follow.
4. What spheres of the social and cultural life of the British society are Victoria and David Beckham involved in?
5. What administrative district of England is the Metropolitan Police Service responsible for?
3.2. The Category of Cohesion

1. 
   What word can be treated as the main key-word holding together the logical-semantic wholeness of the article? Explain your choice. In what way does its recurrence contribute to the integrity of the text?
   
2. 
   What words and word-combinations are logically connected with the key-word and form the corresponding thematic group?
   
3. 
   Pick out words and word-combinations pertaining to the thematic groups united by the common notions of:
   

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  newspaper
  
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  family relations
  
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  fame and popularity
  
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  football
  

4. 
   What lexico-semantic groups of words are conducive to the semantic wholeness of the article?
   
5. 
   Comment on the role synonyms proper and contextual synonyms play in the lexical cohesion of the text.
   
6. 
   How does antonymy (both antonyms proper and contextual ones) reinforce the lexical cohesion of the newspaper writing?
   
7. 
   Through what associative-semantic strings of words and word-combinations is the lexical cohesion of the text also achieved?
   

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  Compose and write a coherent essay summing up your observations on the linguostylistic and textlinguistic peculiarities of the newspaper text “Gang arrested over plot to kidnap Victoria Beckham”.
  

Unit 3

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