Hello! I am divya parmar and I am writting blog to complete sunday reading activity. Hear i am giving some points of view on word "post-truth". also I am giving some points to clear about the word post truth.
explanation of the word "post-truth"
"post-truth" word became very well known in the year 2016-2017. post truth word related with political world. 2016. Oxford Dictionaries has declared "post-truth" as its 2016 international word of the year, reflecting what it called a "highly-charged" political 12 months.It is defined as an adjective relating to circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than emotional appeals.Its selection follows June's Brexit vote and the US presidential election.
Oxford Dictionaries' Casper Grathwohl said post-truth could become "one of the defining words of our time".Post-truth, which has become associated with the phrase "post-truth politics", was chosen ahead of other political terms, including "Brexiteer" and "alt-right" from a shortlist selected to reflect the social, cultural, political, economic and technological trends and events of the year.
Oxford Dictionaries says post-truth is thought to have been first used in 1992.However, it says the frequency of its usage increased by 2,000% in 2016 compared with last year.
Defined by the dictionary as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”, editors said that use of the term “post-truth” had increased by around 2,000% in 2016 compared to last year. The spike in usage, it said, is “in the context of the EU referendum in the United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States”.
Oxford Dictionaries’s word of the year is intended to “reflect the passing year in language”, with post-truth following the controversial choice last year of the “face with tears of joy” emoji. The publisher’s US and UK dictionary teams sometimes plump for different choices – in 2009 the UK went for “simples” and the US for “unfriend”; in 2006 the UK went for “bovvered” and the US for “carbon-neutral” – but this year teams on both sides of the Atlantic chose the same word.
the increase in usage of post-truth saw the term eventually emerge ahead of the pack. “We first saw the frequency really spike this year in June with buzz over the Brexit vote and Donald Trump securing the Republican presidential nomination. Given that usage of the term hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down, I wouldn’t be surprised if post-truth becomes one of the defining words of our time,” predicted Oxford Dictionaries president Casper Grathwohl.
“It’s not surprising that our choice reflects a year dominated by highly-charged political and social discourse. Fuelled by the rise of social media as a news source and a growing distrust of facts offered up by the establishment, post-truth as a concept has been finding its linguistic footing for some time.”
- points which collected throughout the video:
➡️ The word "post-truth" connect with the whole political world. In the year 2016 Oxford dictionary declared the "post-truth" as word of the year but we can notice throughout these following video that the word introduce earlier than that.
➡️ Second point which I noticed throughout the video is a hindi line, सत्य जो है, वह विश्वास के आगे हार रहा है! People are started blindly trust on the political leader or the person who is on the post of power. Even people are educated, aware about the right and wrong Still they are started blindly trust. That's why truth and right things are getting failure in front of blindly trust on political leaders.
➡️ Third thing which I noticed about the term post- truth, is about the people. People started voting to that leaders who speaks in favour of the subject of their interest. When election comes, political leaders started to give fake promises to people and people started believe and gave their votes. But the end of all over things , situation remaining the same!
➡️ "Post-truth" word introduce us with the world of lie.
➡️ In following video I found one more point that people like to accept rather than questioning! People started accept wrong things rather than challenge it!
Hear i put noticed points from the debate video and also I put my explanation on that point.
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