Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities in the Post-Truth Era

V. Doğan Günay was a distinguished emeritus professor of language, literature, linguistics, and semiotics at Dokuz Eylül University, Türkiye. Günay wrote over twenty books and published many articles with an interdisciplinary perspective involving semiotics, language and linguistics, literary criticism, and art. He was among the founders of the Türkiye Semiotics Circle and the Tamga-Turkish Journal of Semiotic Studies. He was the society's first president and editor-in-chief of the journal.Murat Kalelioğlu is an associate professor at Mardin Artuklu University, Türkiye. His research interests are language and literature, culture, textual analysis and interpretation, narratology, linguistics, and semiotics. Kalelioğlu is the author of many scientific publications. He is one of the founders of the Türkiye Semiotics Circle and the Tamga-Turkish Journal of Semiotic Studies.Sibel Bayram is an associate professor at Düzce University, Türkiye, where she completed her MPhil in Ottoman poetry. Bayram earned a PhD in modern Turkish literature at Trakya University, Romania. Her publications comprise many book chapters and research articles, and her research mainly focuses on Balkan literature, modern Turkish literature, and language teaching.