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Could Newspeak work?,
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This review is from: Totalitarian Language: Orwell's Newspeak and Its Nazi and Communist Antecedents (Hardcover)
This book is a three parter. In the first part John W. Young explains to us how language in Orwell's "1984" was used for thought control. In part Two and Three, he compares the fiction to the reality of language and terminology used in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia. Not only does he show us the flaws in totalitarion languages, he even shows us the counter-languages that develop to help people under the dictatorial rule keep things 'real'.One point he makes is that while governments have a hard time changing the meaning of words or banning them completely, they can make words worthless by using them so much that the words lose all meaning. Kind of like how we use 'democratic' today. |
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Totalitarian Language: Orwell's Newspeak and Its Nazi and Communist Antecedents by John Wesley Young (Hardcover - Jan. 1992)
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