Linguistic Analysis By Alina Sinitsyna ARKI-213 The text under analysis is “In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)” by Zager and Evans. The functional style of this text is mixed, it is a literary-conversational style. The type of speech form is a narration because there are a lot of verbs (find, survive, look), actions, and the story is about future actions. The denotative sphere: the main topic is evolution or degradation of human life in future. Subtopics are religion, norms in society and technologies. The semantic field consists of: Pronouns (He, I, himself); Verbs (to make, to take, to give); Terms related to kinship (husband, wife, son, daughter) Parts of the body (arms, legs, eyes, teeth) Communicative registers are informative (In the year 2525 / If man is still alive) and generative (Now, man's reign is through / But through the eternal night / The twinkling of starlight / So very far away). Theme and rheme correlation is stepping correlation in all song. It starts from one date 2525 and continues till the end in 10000. The text does not have a regular meter, it is mainly accentual verses. The types of rhyme are unequal rhyme (In the year 3535 / Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies), end rhyme (If man is still alive / If woman can survive), rich rhyme (You won't find a thing to chew / Nobody's gonna look at you). In addition, there are: alliteration (tell the truth, tell no lie) (pill you took today), which enhance the musicality of lyrics; assonance (Everything you think, do and say), which adds a musical tone to the lyrics. In the text there are some examples of neutral compound proper (starlight, everything, nobody). The term "judgment day" can be considered an archaism. In addition, there are a lot of pairs which can be considered as contextual synonyms (man – woman, truth – no lies, arms – legs) and also absolute synonyms (alive – survive). The vocabulary is predominantly simple and direct, designed to convey a clear and impactful message about the future. All these features prove that this text belongs to literary-conversational functional style.
