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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 prevails in the newspaper writing under analysis?
   
2. 
   Into how many conceptual paragraphs can the factual information be segmented? Briefly summarize each of them, making up an outline the items of which serving as key points of each part.
   
3. 
   What facts relevant in terms of the category of presupposition are there in the text? Comment on the background information underlying them. For this purpose answer the following questions.
   
4. 
   What is El Niño, what areas of the world ocean is it observed in and what consequences does it cause?
   
5. 
   Provide information concerning the following geographical names: California, Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, Orange County, The Channel Islands, Alaska, San Miguel Island, The Pacific, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea.
   

3.2. The Category of Cohesion

1. 
   What words can be treated as the main key-words of the text integrating it into a global logico-semantic whole?
   
2. 
   What words and word-combinations are logically associated with the key-words?
   
3. 
   Pick out words and word-combinations pertaining to the thematic groups united by the common notions of:
   

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  sea-animals
  
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  food for sea animals
  
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  destructive consequences of El Niño for human life
  
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  destructive influence of El Niño on wildlife
  

4. 
   What lexico-semantic groups of words make for the lexical cohesion of the text?
   
5. 
   How does antonymous relations reinforce the lexical cohesion of the newspaper writing in question?
   
6. 
   Comment on the role synonyms proper and contextual synonyms play in the lexical cohesion of the text.
   
7. 
   How do the hyperonymic-hyponymic relations affect the logico-semantic wholeness of the text?
   
8. 
   How do numerous geographical names used in the text contribute to its integrity?
   

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  Compose and write a coherent essay summing up your observations on the linguostylistic and textlinguistic peculiarities of the newspaper text “Pacific warming kills thousands of mammals pups” (The Times, December 9, 1997).