Newspeak
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Newspeak is the language of Oceania, a fictional totalitarian state ruled by the Party, who created the language to meet the ideological requirements of English Socialism (Ingsoc). In George Orwell's world of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Newspeak is a controlled language, of restricted grammar and limited vocabulary, a linguistic design meant to limit the freedom of thought—personal identity, self-expression, free will—that ideologically threatens the régime of Big Brother and the Party, who thus criminalised such concepts as thoughtcrime, contradictions of Ingsoc orthodoxy.
See also
- 2 + 2 = 5
- Code word
- Dumbing down
- Framing
- Hate speech
- Language and thought
- List of Newspeak words
- Loaded language
- Distancing language
- Logocracy
- New Soviet man
- Philosophy of language
- Political correctness
- Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
- Thought-terminating cliché
- Soviet phraseology
- Thought reform in the People's Republic of China
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