The Category of Cohesion. 1. What words can be treated as the main key-words holding together the logical-semantic and artistic wholeness of the extract under consideration?

1. What words can be treated as the main key-words holding together the logical-semantic and artistic wholeness of the extract under consideration? Explain your choice. In what way does their recurrence contribute to the integrity of the text? What integrating images are these key-words closely associated with?

2. What words are logically connected with the key-word “the sea” and form the thematic group united by the common notion “water”?

3. Distinguish other thematic groups of words and word-combinations which make a noticeable contribution to the logico-semantic unity of the text.

4. What is the cohesive potential of the key-word “the sun” supported by?

5. Comment on the role synonyms proper play in the lexical cohesion of the extract.

6. What contextual synonyms and logically associated words implicitly pertain to the notion of “mist”?

7. How does antonymy (both antonyms proper and contextual ones) favour the artistic integrity of the description?

8. What lexico-semantic groups of words are conducive to the semantic and artistic wholeness of the extract?

9. What word-building means reinforce the lexical cohesion of the extract?

10. Through what associative-semantic strings of words and word-combinations is the lexical cohesion of the text also achieved?

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v Compose and write a coherent essay summing up your observations on the linguostylistic and textlinguistic peculiarities of the belles-lettres text “At the Bay” by K. Mansfield.

Unit 2

Martin Chuzzlewit

by Charles Dickens