Review of European Studies; Vol. 7, No. 8; 2015 ISSN 1918-7173 E-ISSN 1918-7181 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Particularities of Political Vocabulary in Tatar and Mari Mass Media: Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis Flera Ya. Khabibullina1 & Iraida G. Ivanova1 1 Mari State Univercsity, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia Correspondence: Flera Ya. Khabibullina, Mari State University, Yoshkar-Ola, Kremlevskaya Street 44, Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El, 424000, Russia. Tel: 8-906-335-5882. E-mail:
[email protected] Received: February 21, 2015 Accepted: March 15, 2015 Online Published: April 29, 2015 doi:10.5539/res.v7n8p65 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/res.v7n8p65 Abstract Politics, like any other social sphere, is served by a distinct system of lexical resources, namely—political vocabulary. The article examines semantical and structural organisation of political vocabulary in two languages —Tatar and Mari—both from a historical perspective and at the present stage of their development. Lexico-semantic groups expressing the concepts of “power” and “politician” are thoroughly explored. The following dominant ways of political vocabulary formation are identified: morphological, morpho-syntactic, lexico-grammatical and phono-morphological. Political lexemes deriving from Altai, Turkic and Tatar strata are investigated. Borrowings in the political vocabulary are carefully examined, data drawn from the leading Tatar- and Mari-medium newspapers. The article also covers a study of functioning of the political vocabulary related to the concepts of “power” and “politician”, such as: state / country, government, political party / movement, heads of state departments, elections. Keywords: political vocabulary, socio-political vocabulary, system of terms, nucleus, peripherals, synchronous analysis, lexico-semantic classification, structural classification, historical-genetic formation 1.