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Pathways and Crossroads of the Decolonial Option: Challenging Marx and Zeus with a Rabo de Arraia

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Feijó G. V., de Melo Resende V.

Language, Discourse & Society

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2020

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vol. 8 (1)

57-67

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This essay uses the expansion of decolonial studies in the so-called Decolonial Turn as a starting point to discuss a few recent significant criticisms against this project – notably those arising from decolonial feminism and counter-colonial thinking. The first criticism of the decolonial option refers to its rapid expansion, with a somewhat mythical portrayal of the Modernity/Coloniality project, thus risking the radical quality of initial ideas. Additionally, there is the pertinent criticism of the treatment initially given to the gender issue, which was not addressed by scholars considered to be precursors of this line of thought. Other powerful matters arose as decolonial thinking spread to different social science fields, including questioning the very possibility of criticism from academic circles. These criticisms generate profound reflections on this movement that intends to bring radical transformations to conservative academic knowledge production. Assuming that coloniality is constitutive of the present, we take these criticisms to look at decoloniality in the field of language studies. On that ground, we maintain that any epistemological breach must start from the contradictions of modernity. We believe that critical discourse studies improve understanding by situating intertextuality and interdiscursivity as inevitable aspects of every discourse, including academic theories and practices.

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A note on the post-structuralist evolution of discourse analysis

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Cap P.

Heteroglossia - studia kulturoznawczo-filologiczne

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2019

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issue 9

109-128

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This paper gives a critical overview of various analytical approaches dominating the field of discourse studies in the last three decades, from the perspective of their philosophical and formative bases: social constructionism and linguistics. It explores different conceptions and features of the theoretical nexus between these two bases leading to the emergence of three distinct yet apparently complementary strands of thought (i-iii). The paper starts with the account of (i) Laclau and Mouffe’s classical discourse theory and its idea of ‘discursive struggle’ – a struggle of particular ways of talking of and understanding the world in an attempt to achieve discursive (and social) hegemony. Laclau and Mouffe’s assumption that no discourse is a closed entity but rather transformed through contact with other discourses is then taken as the introductory premise to present a vast, complex and heterogeneous family of (ii) critical discourse studies. Critical discourse studies are characterized in the paper as a hub of text-analytical practices that work on the link between language and social reality from the perspective of power and empowerment, explaining how discourse partakes in the production, change and negotiations of ideologically-charged meanings. Most crucially, they establish a methodological link between social theory and linguistics, providing discourse analysis with text-analytical tools and methods. Finally, the paper discusses (iii) three recent discourse analytical models: Discourse Space Theory, Critical Metaphor Analysis and Legitimization-Proximization Model. Originally located in the cognitive-psychological strand of critical discourse studies, these new models can now be seen as fully-fledged discourse theories with their own apparatus of analysis, involving concepts from cognitive linguistics, pragmatics and social psychology. It is argued that these three new theories make a further (and thus far final) step toward consolidation of the social-theoretical and linguistic bases in contemporary discourse studies. The empirical benefits of this consolidation are discussed in the last part of the paper, which includes a brief case study where the new models are used in the analysis of Polish anti-immigration discourse.

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Critical Thinking in the “Post-Truth” Era

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Pukhta I.

Wschodni Rocznik Humanistyczny

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2019

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vol. XVI (2019)

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issue 1: Filozofia: Lwów-Preszów-Rzeszów

67-76

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The aim of the present essay is mainly to deconstruct the contemporary turn of post-truth politics by examining the various phenomena to the point where post-truth’s Weltanschauung challenges the boundaries between veritas and fake news’ reduction as an intellectual voyage into/of the voiceless cultivation of emotional policy in view to destroy an establishing worldly tradition of critical thinking reclaiming a transformative appraisal of new “datum” to believe and to develop the notion of the rationality which likewisely has constructed the multileveled responsibility of truth toward the generations of humanity to come. In our research we wish to interrogate the inner and outward faces of post-truth phenomena, their fakes and acts of simulating truth.

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Celem niniejszego eseju jest przede wszystkim dekonstrukcja roli krytycznego myślenia we współczesnej idei post-prawdy poprzez zbadanie różnych fenomenów dotyczącej danego zjawiska. Horyzont światopoglądowy (Weltanschauung), oceniając granice między prawdą a fałszywą redukcją treści wiadomości w zakresie kultywacji polityki emocjonalnej, ma na celu odnalezienie możliwości transformacyjnej oceny nowej „bazy danych”, aby uwierzyć i podobnie pokazać metodę post-prawdy, która przyjmuje istnienie jednej irracjonalnej metody w społeczeństwie. Stąd w niniejszej pracy Autor zastanawia się, czy zjawisko post-prawdy jest wiarygodną i systematyczną propozycją krytyczną na uzasadnienie norm społecznych. Czy stosowanie warunków tejże post-prawdy pozwala na bezbłędność w podejmowaniu decyzji w różnorodnych sytuacjach moralnych? W tych badaniach celem jest przeanalizowanie wewnętrznego i zewnętrznego oblicza zjawisk post-prawdy, ich podróbki oraz aktów symulowania prawdy.

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Целью данного эссе является, прежде всего, деконструкция роли критического мышления в современной идее пост-правды путем изучения различных явлений, связанных с данным явлением. Мировоззренческий горизонт (Weltanschauung), оценивая границы между правдой и ложным сокращением содержания сообщений в области культивирования эмоциональной политики, направлен на то, чтобы найти возможность трансформационной оценки новой «базы данных», чтобы поверить и аналогичным образом показать метод пост-правды, который принимает существование одного иррационального метода. в обществе. Поэтому в этой статье автор занимается вопросом: является ли феномен пост-правды надежным и систематическим критическим предложением для обоснования социальных норм? Позволяет ли применение условий этой пост-правды безошибочно принимать решения в различных моральных ситуациях? В этих исследованиях цель состоит в том, чтобы проанализировать внутреннее и внешнее лицо явлений пост-правды, их подделок и актов симуляции истины.

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Pathways and Crossroads of the Decolonial Option: Challenging Marx and Zeus with a Rabo de Arraia

A note on the post-structuralist evolution of discourse analysis

Critical Thinking in the “Post-Truth” Era