A Different Look at Post-Truth and Its Reflections in Political Communication

Especially today it seems difficult to imagine contemporary election campaigns without voters' exposure to news from mass media such as radio and TV and newer media such as Facebook and Twitter. This work is aimed at expanding the available data and creating a better analysis to go beyond the previous literature. Because the world's media has a tremendous impact on the social conscience, this and its sub-elements form and change public opinion. The mass media is known under the name “Fourth Force ,” referring to the original separation of powers theory of the famous French philosopher Montesquieu (2002). This article focuses on the effects and reflections of the concept of post-truth politics in political communication, which has emerged from a global perspective and is still popular in contemporary mass media, including the UK and the USA. It has become a political literature requirement to better analyze the post-truth among the concepts and understandings that manifest themselves especially in the context of the UK's debates on the exit from the European Union, and it is obvious that more studies should be done on this subject. Examining the nature of post-truth more carefully and evaluating it together with its features and linguistic realization tools can also be seen in the details of modern political interviews. The fact that the political interview represents an improvised speech that includes rules and question-answer sequences to inform the nominated audience reveals the difference that it is a common type of political discourse with two distinguished communicators. The fact that this communication is presented as the final addressee on current issues underlines the most distinctive feature. In this research, discourse analysis, pragmatic analysis and contextual analysis are the previously used methods that are focused on besides literature research.