Scienze Linguistiche……
II°anno
Lingua e Linguistica Inglese
Module A
From Text Analysis to
Translation to Text Analysis
a.a. 2008/2009
Kate Riley
Hanging together
How do texts hang together? How do series of sentences make up a whole text?
Step 1 Below are the first three sentences of 5 different texts. Sort the sentences into the five different texts.
1. Mince the tomatoes, cucumber, red pepper and onion.
2. Called A Day Without Immigrants, the protest comes as Congress wrestles with reform of
immigration laws.
3. In linguistics, the use of language forms to indicate semantic relations between elements in a
discourse.
4. The room was crowded and stuffy and bathed in the red light cast by an ornate golden lamp dangling
from the centre of the ceiling in which fairies were fluttering, each a brilliant speck of light.
5. I think I’ll make myself a banana milk shake, OK?
6. Together, cohesion and register contribute to textuality, the sense that something is a text and not a
random collection of sentences.
7. Crush the garlic and mix it with the salt, pepper and breadcrumbs.
8. Whether it had been built that way, or because he had used magical trickery to make it so,
Slughorn’s office was much larger than the usual teacher’s study.
9. Grammatical cohesion concerns such matters as reference, ellipsis, substitution, and conjunction;
lexical cohesion concerns ties that are valid only for a particular text.
10. The ceiling and walls had been draped with emerald, crimson and gold hangings, so that it looked as
though they were all inside a vast tent.
11. Mum, I’m hungry. Can I have something to eat?
12. I’m sorry, there isn’t much. A bit of cheese pie, if no one’s had it, or crackers and cheese. Oh and
some bananas
13. Millions are expected to stay away from work and school, and avoid spending money, in an effort to
show how much immigrants matter to the economy.
14. Add the oil, drop by drop, to from a thick paste.
15. Immigrant workers in the United States are urging supporters to boycott their jobs on Monday in
another nationwide protest over immigration reform.
Step 2 Put the three sentences in order and write the numbers in the spaces below.
Step 3 Identify what kind of text the sentences are from and write it in the space below..
Text 1. ……………………………………………………………….. Text Type ……………………………………...
Text 2. ……………………………………………………………….. Text Type ……………………………….
Text 3. ……………………………………………………………….. Text Type ………………………………
Text 4. ……………………………………………………………….. Text Type ……………………………….
Text 5. ……………………………………………………………….. Text Type ……………………………………...
Step 4 List the features in the text which enabled you to do this exercise…………………………………………
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Step 5 Which features, if any, made it difficult for you to do this exercise? ………………………………………..
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