CLASH OF COURTROOM NARRATIVES IN THE POST-TRUTH ERA

This article aims to build a better understanding of today's courtroom narratives.Today, our information landscape has changed drastically compared to decades ago because the frequency of fact-related words reduced enormously in the post-truth era.While competing in court, the participants use various information in their narratives, that affects rational perception (semantic information, influence on the mind); emotional perception (aesthetic information, influence on emotions); irrational perception (synectic information, influence on the unconscious).In other words, the effectiveness of the communication process in court is determined by the degree of influence or depth of penetration of the resources of each type of information.Also, information is closely related to memory.At the intersection of all this is the question of the interrelation between narratives and memory and the influence of the post-truth era on this process.Through problematizing review, this article analyses such notions as "post-truth era", "collective, cultural and communicative memory", "storytelling", "narrative".There has been an observation that the public is demonstrating a shift in focus from the veracity of statements to their efficacy in the post-truth era.The issue of memory also contributes to this shift as our review has confirmed.In this context, we have explored in more detail collective, cultural and communicative memory.The concept of collective memory is represented in our research as a bipolar axis at opposing extremes of which we situate cultural and communicative memory.It is proved that communicative memory is characterized by its proximity to the everyday, while cultural memory is characterized by its distance from the everyday.Compared to "cultural" memory, communicative one is seen as the short-term memory of a society.It denotes a willful agreement of the members of a group as to what they consider their own past to be.The concept of communicative memory is susceptible to the influences of the post-truth era, whereas cultural memory is not.The paper concludes that this distinction leads to the emergence of divergent narratives based either on communicative or cultural memory, which can result in significant clashes between them.