Productive models of forming neologisms of the "Brexit" concept group in modern English (on the material of British press and social media)
The article deals with the neologisms that have appeared in the English language in the last few years due to the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union. The objective of this article is to identify the most productive word-formation models. The material of the study are the dictionary units recorded in the British media and social networks in 2012-2017, taking into account their thematic relevance. The relevance of the study is determined by the language material, which allows to reveal how new concepts of political discourse and their verbal representations practically simultaneously become part of the linguo-cognitive picture of the world of different peoples. Neologisms of investigated group, which include such lexical items as Brexit, Breturn, Bremorse, Breversal, Brexiter, Brexiteer, reflect actual changes in the politics of Europe. The author examines the history of the emergence of the concept "Brexit». It is noted that the inclusion of the word, existing such a short period, into the Oxford dictionary is a very unusual phenomenon. The author concludes that neologisms that arose in the English language in connection with the withdrawal of Great Britain from the European Union were formed in accordance with the most productive wordformation models, among which word-formation, affixation and contraction.