FACTOR ANALYSIS OF RECENT YOUTH SOCIO-POLITICAL VOCABULARY

The article scrutinizes extralinguistic, intralinguistic and semi-linguistic factors that influence the political lexicon of the youngsters. The words of actual political discourse have been classified into several sections which have been spelled out in the article. Methodology is based on the survey conducted among the schoolchildren of 9-11 grades. The list of lexemes was divided into 3 main subgroups which were common vocabulary, terminological vocabulary and slang vocabulary. The terms have been analyzed in terms of extralinguistic, intralinguistic and semi-linguistic factors in the study. The study underlines that one word might be polysemantic depending on which terminology it refers to. One technical term may have a vulgar meaning in some cases for its sphere of usage.