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ANALYSIS OF GENRE PECULIARITIES OF A NEWSPAPER PUBLICATION
2.1.

1. 
   Does the information conveyed concern the event that has recently taken place or/and does it concentrate on the problem of general human interest?
   
2. 
   Does the journalist’s position seem to be that of an unbiased observer or does he impose his assessment and emotional attitude to the facts discussed on the reader? If it is so, what language means serve this purpose?
   
3. 
   What is the correlation between pure, matter-of-fact information and elements of appraisal and appeal to the reader in the text?
   

2.2.

1. 
   Can the initial physical paragraph be treated as an instance of a lead?
   
2. 
   What paralinguistic features of the publication serve to attract the casual reader’s attention? Comment on the splash headline, subheading and the arresting picture.
   
3. 
   Do the headlines’ grammar and vocabulary meet the requirements of the newspaper style? Comment on them.
   
4. 
   Which newspaper genre is the topographical design of the writing more characteristic of – a news report or a feature article? Comment on the size and the syntactic structure of the paragraphs.
   

2.3.

1. 
   Is there a large amount of quotations in the text? How are they introduced?
   
2. 
   Which grammatical forms used in the writing are suggestive of spoken English style?
   
3. 
   Which mode of expression prevails in the text – the clichéd, stereotyped vocabulary or the author’s stylistic idiosyncratic preferences?
   
4. 
   What language and paralinguistic means serve to evoke the reader’s compassion for the dying sea animals?
   
5. 
   Is the newspaper writing characterized by a wide use of scientific terminology? Which field of knowledge does it refer to?
   
6. 
   Which stylistic devices are preferred by the author: trite or genuine ones?
   
7. 
   What epithets illustrate the author’s subjective handling of the information conveyed?
   
8. 
   What conclusion can be drawn in respect to the genre of the newspaper writing in question? What ‘borderline’ genre features can be observed both on the structural and lexical levels of the text?
   

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