LANGUAGE AND POWER IN GEO/RGE ORWELL`S “1984”
Keywords:
Language and Power, George Orwell, Newspeak, Doublethink,Totalitarian regime,Thought Police,Control of language, Manipulation of truth, Historical revisionism,Freedom of thought, Political control,Psychological control, Subliminal control,Language as a tool of oppression,Authoritarianism, Thoughtcrime,Party ideology,Reality control, Language manipulationAbstract
The English writer wrote the 1984 novel "language and power" by George Orwell. A novel written in the antiutopian genre. Published in 1949. In the novel, The protagonist Winston Smith is a representative of the outside party. He works in the ministry. The events in the work took place in the air regions of London in 1984. Is a province of the state of Oceania.
References
1.Orwell, George. 1984. Harvill Secker, 2003.
This is the primary source of the essay, George Orwell’s 1984, where the concepts of language manipulation, Newspeak, doublethink, and thoughtcrime are explored.
2. Rosen, David. Orwell and the Politics of Language. Routledge, 1993.
This book explores Orwell’s perspective on how language can be a tool of political control, aligning with the essay's analysis of Newspeak and doublethink.
3.Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Metropolitan Books, 2007.
Naomi Klein’s work, while not directly about 1984, provides a modern take on how political regimes control public perception, which can be related to the manipulation of truth in Orwell’s novel.
