Nick Enfield on
Language and Post-Truth
The word 'post-truth' may only have entered the Oxford English Dictionary in the last decade, but the phenomenon it describes is much older and deeper, connected not so much to the latest internet trend as the fundamentals of human cognition and communication. Here, linguistic anthropologist Nick Enfield, a professor at the University of Sydney and leader of its post-truth research group, introduces the best books to get thinking about the complex relationship between language and reality.
