| Autor: |
Eleonora Marzi |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />Italian |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Griseldaonline, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 179-194 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1721-4777 |
| DOI: |
10.6092/issn.1721-4777/11503 |
| Popis: |
In the dystopian world that George Orwell imagines in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the hegemonic politic party Ingsoc promulgates the Newspeak, a language created in order to satisfy the ideological needs of the Party: to control the individual and prevent the exercise of his free thought. Imaginary languages have always played an important role within the dystopian genre: the structure of society is reflected in that of language, the intimate relationship between representation of reality language is exploited for political ends. The article investigates - through the perspective of linguistic relativism - the functioning of the relationship between linguistic sign and referent in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. The study uses in particular the concepts of denotation and connotation and relates them to the iconic surface of words theorized by Berman. |
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Directory of Open Access Journals |
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