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Un regard sur quelques tendances dans le discours médiatique et littéraire contemporain (étude introductive)
(A Stance on Certain Trends in Nowadays’ Literary and Media-Related Discourse)

Author(s): Corina Iftimia
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Historical Linguistics
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: post-histoire; postmodernism; political correctness; stock language; autofiction;

Summary/Abstract: The present study approaches the main thought-provoking subtopics addressed in the issue at hand from a present-day angle highlighting long-standing concepts like truth, history or literature through association with the overused and abused prefix post-. It further zooms in on the overstating, overdramatizing media discourse, on literary discourse turned self-reflexive, as well as on „politically correct‟ linguistics and translatology. The stance we take is that adopted by Philippe Muray in his writings on the tyranny of Good as fostered by never-ending contemporary festivocracy.