Dystopian wor(l)ds : language within and beyond experience

This thesis examines language in a range of modern and contemporary dystopian literary fiction, and argues for a reinterpretation of Whorfian linguistics as a means of advancing understanding of the dystopian genre's acknowledged propensity to influence the habitual world-view of its readership...

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Main Author: Millward, Julie
Published: University of Sheffield 2007
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488670