THE ORWELLIAN “DOUBLETHINK” AND “NEWSPEAK” AS TOOLS OF POLITICAL MANIPULATION

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is the linguistic study of Orwellian Doublethink and Newspeak as powerful discursive and linguistic tools of political manipulation presented in the novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four”. The paper first presents language as the most powerful and effective tool used in political manipulation, elucidates Doublethink as a means of linguistic manipulation viewed in contrast with cognitive dissonanse, which then serves as a firm foundation for expounding its more detailed psychological, mental, and social characteristics, and proceeds to the description Newspeak as a cognitively more effective linguistic tool for political manipulation.