Original citation: Angermüller, Johannes (2018) Truth after post-truth : for a strong programme in discourse studies. Palgrave Communications, 4 (1). 30. doi:10.1057/s41599-018-0080-1 Permanent WRAP URL: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/101933 Copyright and reuse: The Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) makes this work of researchers of the University of Warwick available open access under the following conditions. This article is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0) and may be reused according to the conditions of the license. For more details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ A note on versions: The version presented in WRAP is the published version, or, version of record, and may be cited as it appears here. For more information, please contact the WRAP Team at:
[email protected] warwick.ac.uk/lib-publications ARTICLE DOI: 10.1057/s41599-018-0080-1 OPEN Truth after post-truth: for a Strong Programme in Discourse Studies Johannes Angermuller1 ABSTRACT Contemporary post-truth discourses put the constructivist foundations of Discourse Studies to a test. According to critical observers, discourse analysts have been playing into the hands of Trump, Brexit and right-wing populists by politicising scientific fi 1234567890():,; knowledge and undermining the idea of scienti c truth. In order to respond to these concerns, this article outlines a Strong Programme in Discourse Studies. While the Strong Programme insists on truths as discursive constructions, in no way does it claim that all ideas have the same truth value or that an idea can become true because somebody wants it to be true.