The Viability of Orwell's Newspeak : through the theory of Saussurean semiotics
Set in the totalitarian society of Oceania, George Orwell’s 1984 illustrates how a government can exert complete control over its citizens through surveillance, manipulation, and more central to this essay, language. By employing a structuralist framework based on Ferdinand de Saussure’s research on...
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Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för lärarutbildning
2020
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-20716 |