DuffsterCole Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 (edited) Hi everyone! I have an FOA based on part 2 of the Lang Lit course (Language and Mass Communication) coming up, and I was wondering if it would be appropriate to base it off George Orwell's 1984? Rather than analysing the text for thematic content and symbolism and whatnot, I'd instead discuss how language is used by the government in 1984 to influence the populace, touching on things like Newspeak, doublethink, as well as the Ingsoc party slogans, and then pointing out and analysing examples of things like this in the real word, showing the wider significance of Orwell's language constructions/predictions/whatever you could call them, and I'd also discuss one of Noam Chomsky's theories (the name escapes me right now), and how that applies. Thank you! Edited October 18, 2015 by DuffsterCole Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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