LANGUAGE, POWER AND SOCIETY: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL VOCABULARY

Annotasiya

This article examines the relationship between political vocabulary and social meaning through a sociolinguistic perspective, structured according to the IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion) model. The study focuses on how political vocabulary functions as a medium of power and social influence within contemporary communication. Data were collected from scholarly literature, political speeches, and official texts, and analyzed using descriptive, comparative, terminological, and discursive methods. The findings show that political vocabulary is not limited to fixed definitions; instead, it is a flexible system in which meanings expand and shift depending on context, ideology, and communicative purpose. Political terms often carry both conceptual and evaluative meanings, allowing them to shape public perception and reinforce or challenge social interpretations. Overall, political vocabulary emerges as a dynamic linguistic resource that connects language, society, and power relations.