- •Міністерство освіти і науки, молоді та спорту україни
- •Symbols used to structure a unit
- •Part one belles-lettres functional style
- •I. Introductory Notes
- •I. The Presentation of a Text
- •II. The Category of Informativity
- •Gist (Summary) of the Factual Information
- •III. The Category of Presupposition
- •IV. The Conceptual Information
- •V. The Category of Implication
- •VI. The Category of Cohesion
- •Assignments for self-control
- •1.5. On the American Dead in Spain
- •(1899—1961)
- •1. The dead sleep cold in Spain tonight.
- •2. The Lincoln Battalion.
- •4. The fascists may spread over the land, blasting their way with weight of metal brought from other countries.
- •5. For the earth endureth forever.
- •At the Bay
- •Katherine Mansfield (1888 – 1923)
- •Section 1 text comprehension questions
- •1.1. Issues for Discussion
- •Section 2
- •Vocabulary focus
- •2.2. Vocabulary Practice
- •1. Complete the table by filling in each part of speech section.
- •2. Use the word given in capitals at the end of the sentence to form a word that fits in the gap.
- •4. Find productive adjective-forming suffixes in the text and pick out all the instances of their use from the text. Comment on their generalized meaning.
- •4. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •5. Make uр sentences оf your own using the following polysemantic words in their different meanings:
- •Synonyms
- •1. Point out the synonyms; comment on the difference in the shades of their meaning or / and in expressive-evaluative or / and stylistic colouring; translate the sentences into Ukrainian.
- •2. Comment on the following.
- •3. Choose the best answer (a-d) which best completes each sentence below.
- •4. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •3. Usе suitаblе phraseological units instead of the words and combinations of words italicized.
- •4. Render the following words and ехpressions in English.
- •5. Match the meanings of the idioms with their definitions.
- •7. Translate the following sеntеnсеs into English using the appropriate phraseological units for the words italicized.
- •1. Render in Ukrainian the words and combinations of words italicized. Mind that оnе and thе same wоrd in the English lаnguаge mау have different equivalents in Ukrainian.
- •2.3. Further vocabulary practice for self-study
- •1. Unjumble the words in the box and add them to the most suitable group of the words below.
- •2. Use the words from exercise 1 to complete these sentences.
- •4. Read the text below and decide which answer (a, b, c or d) best fits each space. There is an example at the beginning (0).
- •Assignments for Text Analysis in Terms of Textlinguistic Categories
- •3.1. The Category of Informativity
- •3.2. The Category of Implication
- •Martin Chuzzlewit
- •Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- •Section 1 text comprehension questions
- •1.1. Issues for Discussion
- •Section 2
- •Vocabulary focus
- •2.2. Vocabulary Practice word-building
- •1. Complete the table by filling in each part of speech section.
- •2. Use the word given in capitals at the end of the sentence to form a word that fits in the gap.
- •5. Point out the derivatives formed from the stems of the words familiar to you and analyse their morphological structure.
- •6. Analyse the morphological structure of the words:
- •Polysemy
- •Synonyms
- •1. Point out synonyms; comment on the difference in the shade of meaning or in colouring; translate the sentences into Ukrainian.
- •2. Which of the synonyms in the two groups given below do you prefer if you wish to stress the highest degree of the feeling?
- •3. Choose the answer (a-d) which best completes each sentence below.
- •Phraseology
- •1. Paraphrase the phraseological expressions italicized.
- •2. Replace the words and expressions italicized by phraseological expressions.
- •3. Think of one word only which can be used appropriately in all the three sentences.
- •2. Give the English equivalents for the words and phrases below; use phraseology where possible:
- •3. Translate the following sentences. Pay attention to the way the words italicized are rendered in Ukrainian.
- •Assignments for Text Analysis in Terms of Textlinguistic Categories
- •3.1. The Category of Informativity
- •3.2. The Category of Implication
- •3.3. The Category of Cohesion
- •Part two english newspaper style
- •I. General Notes
- •1.4. An outline of the analysis of a newspaper writing
- •Assignements for self-control
- •II. News reporting General Notes
- •2.4. Linguostylistic characteristics of a news report
- •2.5. Linguistic peculiarities of a headline
- •III. A feature article General Notes
- •3.2. Linguostylistic peculiarities of a feature article
- •Assignements for self-control
- •Blaze at charity bonfire damages warehouses
- •Text comprehension questions
- •Analysis of Genre Peculiarities of a Newspaper Publication
- •3.1. The Categories of Informativity and Presupposition
- •3.2. The Category of Cohesion
- •Gang arrested over plot to kidnap Victoria Beckham
- •Section 1 text comprehension questions
- •3.1. The Categories of Informativity and Presupposition
- •3.2. The Category of Cohesion
- •Section 1 text comprehension questions
- •Analysis of genre peculiarities of a newspaper publication
- •Assignments for text analysis in terms of textlinguistic categories
- •3.1. The Categories of Informativity and Presupposition
- •3.2. The Category of Cohesion
- •Linguistic Gaps in English Vocabulary
- •Section 1 text comprehension questions
- •Analysis of genre peculiarities of a newspaper publication
- •Assignments for text analysis in terms of textlinguistic categories
- •3.1. The Categories of Informativity and Presupposition
- •3.2. The Category of Cohesion
- •Giles Whittell
- •In Los Angeles
- •Section 1 text comprehension questions
- •Analysis of genre peculiarities of a newspaper publication
- •Assignments for text analysis in terms of textlinguistic categories
- •3.1. The Categories of Informativity and Presupposition
- •3.2. The Category of Cohesion
- •Part three scientific functional style
- •I. General Notes
- •Assignments for self-control
- •Assignments for self-control
- •Assignments for self-control
- •English Dialects
- •Section 1 text comprehension questions
- •1.1. Issues for Discussion
- •Section 2
- •Vocabulary focus
- •2.2. Vocabulary Practice word-building
- •2. Complete the table filling in part-of-speech sections. Some sections may remain blank.
- •3. Fill each space in the sentences below using appropriate derivatives of the words in capitals in the correct form.
- •Polysemy
- •1. For sentences 1 – 3 think of one word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.
- •Synonyms and register
- •1. Select synonymic words from the box matching the words below.
- •2. Fill the gaps with the words from the text that have the same meaning as the words in brackets.
- •3. Provide more formal equivalents to the following expressions.
- •4. Replace the phrases in bold with one of the words or word combinations from the box in the correct form.
- •Textlinguistic categories
- •3.1. The Categories of Informativity and Presupposition
- •3.2. The Category of Cohesion
- •Superluminous Laser Pulse in an Active Medium
- •Explanatory Notes
- •Section 1 text comprehension questions
- •1.1. Issues for Discussion
- •Section 2
- •Vocabulary focus
- •2.2. Vocabulary Practice word-building
- •2. Fill each space in the sentences below using appropriate derivatives of the words in capitals in the correct form.
- •Polysemy
- •1. For sentences 1 – 5 think of one word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.
- •Synonyms and register
- •1. Match the words from the text on the right with the synonyms on the left. Some words from the left column may have more than one synonym.
- •2. Fill the gaps with the words from the text vocabulary which are semantically correlated with the words in brackets.
- •Section 3
- •Textlinguistic categories
- •3.1. The Categories of Informativity and Presupposition
- •3.2. The Category of Cohesion
- •Text 3 Metabolites of Pseudomonas
- •Involved in the biocontrol
- •Of plant disease
Text comprehension questions
During what social event did the fire take place? What caused it?
For what purpose was the bonfire organized?
Were there any people injured in the fire? If so, what were they and how severe were the injuries that the victims of the fire received?
How did the firemen assess the scale of the fire?
How many fire-engines were there in attendance at the fire?
How quickly did the fire-brigade manage to get the fire under control?
What factors hampered extinguishing the fire?
What kind of medical help did the injured get?
What was the situation on the site the morning after the fire like?
Who are the organizers of the Bonfire Night celebration and what are they responsible for?
Why is it difficult to estimate the financial damage caused by the fire, according to the owner of the warehouses?
How severely were the materials kept at the stores damaged?
What is the Chief of the York fire-brigade’s reaction to the event?
How does the Chief of the fire-brigade comment on the advisability of the bonfire near the warehouses? What is his assessment of the degree of the risk involved?
What is the opinion of the fire organizer as for the possibility of the safety measures violation?
What versions of the fire causes are put forward by the people interviewed? In what way could the actions of the youth gangs have caused the fire? What violation of the safety rules might have had something to do with the fire starting?
Section 2
Analysis of Genre Peculiarities of a Newspaper Publication
2.1.
What kind of information is conveyed by the newspaper writing? Specify what event is in the focus of the newspaper publication.
Can the author’s attitude to the information conveyed be characterized as that of a detached, unbiased observer?
Does the reporter project himself in the publication?
2.2.
Can the initial physical paragraph be considered a lead? Is it characterized by a fixed word-order providing answers to the five traditional w-and-h journalistic questions?
Is the paragraphing of the text typical of the general arrangement of a news report reading matter? Comment on the syntactical structure of the sentences constituting the paragraphs.
How is the logical connection between the paragraphs achieved? Comment on the role of different adverbial connectors.
What lexical peculiarities is the headline characterized by? Why is the noun “blaze” preferred to its neutral equivalent “fire”?
Characterize the grammatical peculiarities of the headline and the subheading commenting on their “abbreviated grammar” style. Reconstruct their full grammatical versions.
Comment on the use of tense-forms in the headline.
2.3.
What is the stylistic value of the bulk of the vocabulary used in the newspaper writing in question?
Pick out special economic terms and account for their use in the publication.
Is the text characterized by the use of terms pertaining to other spheres of knowledge?
Is the publication illustrative of non-term political vocabulary?
Pick out clichéd, stereotyped word-combinations typical of a current newspaper style. Find the corresponding clichés in the Ukrainian language. Remember that their translation must be dynamic.
Is the text characterized by an extensive use of abbreviations?
Are there any cases of neologisms?
Find examples of a) more expressive and more vividly descriptive lexical units; b) vocabulary units used in their figurative meaning and comment on the stylistic effect achieved.
Comment on the stylistic difference between the pairs: a) run into – amount to; b) damp down – extinguish.
What types of sentences prevail in the text? Does their structure reveal the grammatical parameters typical of a news report?
Is the use of dashes characteristic of the publication in question? If so, find examples of such and say what functions they perform.
What characteristic feature of news reporting is observed in introducing the participants of the events described?
Is the text abundant in the use of quotations? Are they introduced directly or indirectly?
Is the violation of a normal word-order in the phrase said Mr. Green characteristic of news reporting style?
Find instances of a characteristic trick of journalists to begin an adverbial phrase with Participle II and comment on their structure.
Make a conclusion concerning the genre of the newspaper writing under analysis.
Section 3
Assignments for Text Analysis in Terms of
Textlinguistic Categories