... make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." George Orwell, 1984, Pg. 58. He goes on to elaborate on this thought in his essay THE PRINCIPLES OF NEWSPEAK, "It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and ... Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought - that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc - should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependant on words." George Orwell, 1984, Pg. 327. Newspeak was a new language ... reasons, the party member, like the proletarian has no standa...

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... and the educated (perhaps one and the same). Orwell also chastises the trends of his society. His complaint is that people now embrace and practice a language that sells the involved parties (speaker, writer, listener, reader) short. Like Arnold, Orwell felt these flaws were repairable. Arnold felt that the spread ... own thoughts, on the most personal level, are being changed by ready-made phrases. "If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." It is in this paragraph, towards the end of the essay, that we begin to see a sort of paranoia in Orwell's words. "The invasi...

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... the two cerebral hemispheres. Most research on hemispheric asymmetry was however focused on the visual system, although the principles governing the workings of the hemispheres should be supra-modal. In 1984 the group of Hugdahl et al, (Hugdahl 2012) began research on auditory laterality, using a variation of the dichotic listening technique. In particular, simple speech sounds consisting of pairs of ... based on dichotic listening has been used in assessing lateralized speech. In particular, neuropsychologists have used this test to explore the role of singular neuroanatomical structu...

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