The post-truth politics features deconstructed in the parliamentary discourse [Articol]

Abstract

Critical discourse theories, semiotic as well as political and sociological studies deal with a bifurcation of post-truth approaches: alarmist/mainstream and the more critical one. The latter approach researches three manifestations of post-truth politics: the rejection of scientific research arguments: anti-expertism, anti-intellectualism – a proselytism of agnotology (deliberate propagation of ignorance, as a strategic and active ploy); as opposed to epistemology, knowledge, research, facts – based narratives. The second feature would be: post- truth nostalgia for some golden era politics and standards in opinion congruence; as opposed to a new reality characterized by a decay of morality, resentment and antagonistic narratives. The third feature is a post-truth, a predilection for an appeal to emotions rather than to veridic facts. Overall post-truth politics is rather not a reductionist relativism but a neo-fundamentalist discourse, when truth is no longer relevant, purely the positional advantage counts. The truth in this construct is considered as hyperbolic. Through the study of the full-spectrum granulation of the pragmatic effects present in the parliamentary discourse the present article, both de- constructs and de-bunks.