Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1. Genre
2. Theme
4. Concept(s)
7. Tone
8. Message/idea
9. Interpretation
1. The type of the text: the sciences, the humanities, the natural sciences
2. Genre of the text: article, dissertation, treatise, thesis, manual, review, etc.
4. Compositional form/pattern/design:
the title
the closure
1. lexical:
bookish words
1. syntactic:
passive constructions
impersonal forms
constructions with ‘one’ and ‘that of’, ‘those of’, ‘that + Participle’
1. morphological:
adverbs.
1. The type of the text: the arts, politics, economy, morality, law, religion, etc.
2. Genre of the text: oratories, speeches, articles, commentaries, letter, essay, etc.
3. The theme/subject/topic of the text
4. Compositional form/pattern/design:
the end
paragraphs.
5. Language peculiarities:
1. syntactic:
emphatic constructions
1. lexical:
colloquialisms
1. morphological
6. Stylistic means:
1. The type of the text: governmental, juridical, diplomatic, commercial, military, etc.
2. Genre of the text: contract, pact, statute, treaty, authoritative directive, regulation,
procedures act, instruction, etc.
4. Compositional form/pattern/design:
introductory sentences
stereotypical features
5. Language peculiarities:
1. lexical:
borrowings
archaisms
set expressions
contractions, abbreviations
conventional symbols.
1. syntactical:
participles 1 and 2
passive constructions
1. Define the genre of the given sample of newspaper writing and speak on its general
distinctive features:
a feature story
a profile
an editorial
a business article
a sports article
a review.
3. Define the theme of the article. Provide the background information to reinforce /
justify interest in the topic.
5. Define the type of the headline and explain if it helps predict the contents and
viewpoint of the article.
6. Name the purpose of the article and speak on linguistic and stylistic presentation of
information:
key words;