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ASSIGNMENTS FOR TEXT ANALYSIS IN TERMS OF
TEXTLINGUISTIC CATEGORIES
3.1. The Categories of Informativity and Presupposition

1. 
   Which type of information is the publication in question characterised by?
   
2. 
   Say into how many conceptual paragraphs the factual information of the text falls. Briefly summarize each of them, making up an outline, the items of it serving as key points of each part. Which conceptual paragraph coincides with the so-called lead and what information does it provide?
   
3. 
   Are there any facts of socio-historical significance relevant in terms of the category of presupposition? Comment on the background information underlying them answering the questions that follow.
   
4. 
   What do you know about the main figure in the scandal reported, David Blunkett, and the author of the revelatory report, Alan Budd?
   
5. 
   What do the metonymic names Whitehall, Westminster and No 10 stand for?
   
6. 
   Provide some information about the British newspapers the Guardian and the Spectator mentioned in the present publication.
   

7. What do you know about the British politicians Tony Blair and Gordon Brown? What positions did they occupy in 2005 and in what capacity are they working now?
3.2. The Category of Cohesion

9. 
   What words can be treated as the chief key-words holding together the logical-semantic wholeness of the news report?
   
10. 
    In what way does their recurrence make for the integrity of the text? What words and word-combinations are the key-words closely associated with?
    
11. 
    What word-building means contribute to the lexical cohesion of the text? Comment on the role of affixation in the lexical cohesion of the text.
    
12. 
    How do means of supraphrasal cohesion, i.e. different adverbial connectors, contribute to the perception of the news report as a logico-semantic whole?
    
13. 
    Comment on the role synonyms proper and contextual synonyms play in the lexical cohesion of the news report.
    
14. 
    How does antonymy reinforce the lexical cohesion of the newspaper writing in question?
    

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  Compose and write a coherent essay summing up your observations on the linguostylistic and textlinguistic peculiarities of the news report “Blunkett resigns over visa for nanny” (The Guardian Weekly, December 24 – January 6, 2004 - 2005).