The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository ProseArthur M. Eastman |
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... Newspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc , or English Social- ism . In the year 1984 there was not as yet anyone who used Newspeak as his sole means of communication ...
... Newspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc , or English Social- ism . In the year 1984 there was not as yet anyone who used Newspeak as his sole means of communication ...
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... Newspeak was founded on the English language as we now know it , though many Newspeak sentences , even when not containing newly created words , would be barely intelligible to an English- speaker of our own day . Newspeak words were ...
... Newspeak was founded on the English language as we now know it , though many Newspeak sentences , even when not containing newly created words , would be barely intelligible to an English- speaker of our own day . Newspeak words were ...
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... Newspeak had been fixed for so late a date as 2050 . QUESTIONS FOR STUDY , DISCUSSION , AND WRITING 1. What is the purpose of Newspeak ? What assumptions about the nature and uses of language make it possible to try to accomplish that ...
... Newspeak had been fixed for so late a date as 2050 . QUESTIONS FOR STUDY , DISCUSSION , AND WRITING 1. What is the purpose of Newspeak ? What assumptions about the nature and uses of language make it possible to try to accomplish that ...
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Dylan Thomas Memories of Christmas | 1 |
Allan Seager The Joys of Sport at Oxford | 11 |
A J Liebling Poet and Pedagogue | 22 |
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