EPISTEMIC PROVOCATION, EPISTEMIC VIGILANCE: DISCOURSE PRACTICES IN POST-TRUTH ERA

EPISTEMIC PROVOCATION, EPISTEMIC VIGILANCE: DISCOURSE PRACTICES IN POST-TRUTH ERA

Author:  Klepikova Tatyana A.

Abstract: 
The article deals with cognitive-linguistic mechanisms of epistemic provocation and epistemic vigilance as characteristic of ‘post-truth’ discourse. The mechanisms are based on discrimination between intuitive and counter-intuitive concepts as a result of interpretative cognitive processes.

Keywords: 
epistemic provocation  ◆  epistemic vigilance  ◆  intuitive / counter-intuitive concepts  ◆  interpretative commitment