How is the theme in '1984' of language being a powerful tool for determining how people view the world shown through the use of newspeak?


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By manipulating the language, the government wishes to alter the public’s way of thinking. This can be done, psychologists theorise, because the words that are available for the purpose of communicating thought tend to influence the way people think. The linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf was a firm believer in this link between thought and language, and he theorised that “different languages impose different conceptions of reality”. ChaCha!

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