The concept of post-truth has been in existence for the past decade, but Oxford Dictionaries has seen a spike in frequency this year in the context of the EU referendum in the United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States. It has also become associated with a particular noun, in the phrase ‘post-truth politics’.
“后真相”这一概念在过去十年中就已存在,但是《牛津词典》发现今年其使用频率飙升,而这种现象之后的背景是英国脱欧公投和美国总统大选。还出现了一个与之相关的特定名词短语——“后真相政治”。
‘It’s not surprising that our choice reflects a year dominated by highly-charged political and social discourse,’ says Casper Grathwohl, President of Oxford Dictionaries. ‘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.’
《牛津词典》负责人卡斯帕•格拉沃斯说:“果不其然,我们选出的词反映了今年充斥着高度紧张的政治和社会论争。随着社交媒体崛起成为大众消息来源,而传统媒体发布的事实受到越来越多的质疑,后真相这一概念已找到其语言学根基,而且这种现象已经持续一段时间了。”
The Word of the Year shortlist
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