In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, published
1948 by George Orwell, he describes the world Oceania (pink on the map below), where “the” Party controls every citizen’s word and
action, night and day, trough the “telescreen”, a tv that can both receive and transmit images and
sounds.
But for the control to be complete, it is
necessary to reduce the essence thought itself. One of the most worrisome element in the novel is the
“Newspeak”, a highly artificial language, that in the aims of the Party in a
not so far future will become the only allowed linguistic instrument.
