The Emergence and Entrenchment of the Polexit Slogan in the Law and Justice political narratives
The Emergence and Entrenchment of the Polexit Slogan in the Law and Justice political narratives

Summary/Abstract: RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The main objective of this article is to shed light on the emergence and entrenchment of the Polexit slogan in Polish political discourse. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The authors sought to understand the emergence and consolidation of the Polexit narrative in the Polish public debate. An important assumption made by the authors is the central role of the national habitus, which forms the basis for the creation and interpretation of the central axis of the political debate in Poland. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The operationalisation of the concept of habitus in research practice is challenging; the authors see it as a set of dispositions that produce individual and collective practices in accordance with schemes generated by history, derived from a shared understanding of Polishness. RESEARCH RESULTS: In the collective imagination shaped in this way lies the most fundamental unifying element of the Polish people – the myth of being the victim, with both historiography and literature emphasising suffering as a unifying element of the Polish national community. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: The Polish national habitus provides a fruitful frame of reference for understanding the PiS government's narrative towards the EU, embedding prominent Polish politicians' statements in the specificity of the Polish cultural and historical context.

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