BREXIT: COMMUNICATIVE CONFRONTATIONS CREATING NEW REALIA AND JARGON

Abstract

The article deals with Brexit realia, which are associated with Brexit Day. The paper reveals the prerequisites of the departure of the Commonwealth from the EU as the background for new conceptual phenomena in the language and minds. We exemplify contextual realization of new Brexit Lexicon depending on the communicative stakeholders of the process. In comparison with other lexical items, realia are deeply connected with some nation or country in a definite period. Correspondently, Brexit realia and related jargon have been entering not only the language but also the minds of people through relatively objective reality, everyday life of the UK and the EU. Brexit realia are characterized by their integrated character predetermined by a many prerequisites – historical, social, economic, and cultural. For general public, such a complex background makes them vague and hard for understanding. Thus, their contextual realization largely depends on the point of view of communicative stakeholders and their interpretations. The following research can focus on the pragmatic and functional peculiarities of Brexit realia over the whole Brexit period. Still, nowadays in terms of the outbreak of Covid–19 in Europe starting from March 2020, European exit realia can be on the way due to a range of communicative, political, and economic confrontations.