LANGUAGE AND CONTROL – GLOSSOPOESIS IN ORWELL'S NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR AND ELGIN'S NATIVE TONGUE

ABSTRACT: With this article, we propose a comparative reading of the use of artificial languages as plot devices by George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and Suzette Haden Elgin’s Native Tongue (1984) in relation to their views of language and control. Pierre Bourdieu (1991) Guy Deutscher (2010), and Conley and Cain (2006) greatly subsidy our research. As a result, we demonstrate how similar the authors’ impressions are