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Tutorial 2 In class exercise: Text Analysis Part I: Lexical analysis Task 1 (a) Guess the theme of the attached text without reading the text. (b) Carry out a lexical analysis following the three steps: Step 1: Frequency analysis Most frequent words are: ______________, _______________, ______________, ______________. Step 2: Semantic field analysis: a. The text is verb-dominated ( ), noun-dominated ( ), adjective-dominated ( ) no outstanding observation ( ) b. Name three or four more obvious semantic fields: Semantic fields

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c. From the above, try to state the theme of the text: _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Step 3: Register analysis Tick appropriate boxes and give examples formal ( )

informal ( )

common core ( )

literary ( )

colloquial ( )

technical ( )

French ( )

sound effect ( )

English ( )

Latinate( )

slang ( )

odd collocation ( )

archaic ( )

Part II: Syntactic Analysis: Always relate your observations to the overall effect of the text. 1. Sentence length: Longest: _____ words Shortest _____ words average length: ___words. Compared with the sentence length of texts that you usually read, the sentence length is longer ( ) shorter ( ) same ( ).

2. Complexity of sentence: a. Tick the sentence strategies that have been used: Simple sentence ( ) clause ( ) that clauses ( )

compound sentence ( ) complex sentences ( ) relative clauses ( ) what clauses ( )

participle

parallel structure ( ) embedding ( )

b. Rank the use of the following sentences: 1 the most frequent Simple sentence ( )

compound sentence ( )Complex sentences ( )

c. Are there any sentences that are not grammatical? What effects have been achieved?

d. Are there any other interesting observations regarding sentence patterns?

From the above, what can you conclude about the style of the writer regarding grammar? long sentence ( ) short sentence ( ) complicated ( ) simple ( ) varied ( ) not varied ( ) creative ( ) not creative ( ) standard ( ) non-standard ( )

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