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Abstract Abstract: As a contemporary cultural trend, postmodernism lashes against the traditional ways of thinking about the world in many aspects. Particularly, it is skeptical or critical of the traditional views on language, reality, history, truth, and subjectivity. With analyses, this article argues that postmodernism views language as an autonomous system out of the user’s control; reality as a linguistic construct and therefore “secondary”; writing history as telling stories, practicing “narrativism”; truth as plural and relative, personal and subjective; subjectivity not as unified but as plural, constantly undergoing change since it exists in processes.
Key words: postmodernism; cultural trend; ideas
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