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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 newspaper publication under analysis characterized by?
   
2. 
   Into how many conceptual paragraphs does the factual information fall? Briefly summarize each of them, making up an outline, the items of which serving as key points of each part.
   
3. 
   Find facts of socio-historical and/or cultural significance relevant in terms of the category of presupposition and comment on the background information underlying them. For this purpose answer the following questions.
   
4. 
   Who is meant by “those opposed to English cooking”?
   
5. 
   Why are English people of certain professions referred to as those who may positively assess the phrase “Good health”?
   
6. 
   What is Old Kent Road famous for?
   
   1. 
      Does the University of Chester belong to really existing British Universities?
      

3.2. The Category of Cohesion

1. 
   What words can be regarded as the main key-words of the text holding together its logical-semantic integrity?
   
2. 
   In what way does their recurrence contribute to the lexical cohesion of the text?
   
3. 
   What words and word-combinations are logically associated with the key-words?
   
4. 
   Distinguish thematic groups of words and word-combinations united by the common notions of:
   
5. 
   people speaking a certain language;
   
6. 
   people of certain professions;
   
7. 
   eating;
   
8. 
   drinking;
   
9. 
   leavetaking.
   
10. 
    What lexico-semantic groups of words are conducive to the logico-semantic integrity of the text?
    
11. 
    What word-building means reinforce the lexical cohesion of the text?
    
12. 
    How do various adverbial connectors make for the logico-semantic wholeness of the writing?
    
13. 
    Comment on the role synonyms proper and contextual synonyms play in the lexical cohesion of the text.
    
14. 
    How does antonymy (both antonyms proper and contextual ones) reinforce the lexical cohesion of the newspaper writing?
    
15. 
    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 “Linguistic Gaps in English Vocabulary”.
  

Unit 5
THE TIMES TUESDAY DECEMBER 9 1997


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