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Newspeak|ˈnjuːspiːk|
Also newspeak.
[f. new a. + speak v.]
The name of the artificial language used for official communications in G. Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, freq. applied to any corrupt form of English, spec. the propagandist and ambiguous language of some politicians, broadcasters, etc. Also attrib.
1949‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-Four i. 51 Syme was a philologist, a specialist in Newspeak. Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now engaged in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary. Ibid. ii. 133 Do you know the Newspeak word goodthinkful? Ibid. App. 299 Newspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism. In the year 1984 there was not as yet anyone who used Newspeak as his sole means of communication, either in speech or writing. 1950A. A. Roback Personality in Theory & Practice i. 27, I do not think it necessary to resort to ‘Newspeak’ in order to write scientifically. 1959New Statesman 2 May 602/2 This cynical ‘newspeak’ naming of Nationalist legislation has, in recent months, been matched by a remarkable change in the language used by their press and politicians. 1961Y. Olsson On Syntax Eng. Verb vi. 148 Even George Orwell's progressive Newspeak still preserves a few ‘clumsy remnants of a bygone past’. 1963Guardian 8 Mar. 10/6 Mr John Snagge, Head of Presentation at the BBC, is asking applicants for jobs as announcers to read aloud the ‘Guardian's’ leading article about ‘newspeak’, a method of speech, said by the writer to have become common among broadcasters, in which fullstops are put in the middle of sentences. 1966Punch 27 July 140/1 Accusing the Prime Minister of ‘the same old excuses’, it [sc. the Daily Telegraph] labelled ‘redeployment’ as ‘new-speak’, which would be ‘victimisation of the workers’ in any but a Labour Government. 1972Guardian 17 Feb. 14/5 The Orwellian Newspeak style. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Aug. 935/2 The new party line, directed this time against ‘rootless cosmopolitans’—newspeak for Jews. 1975Ibid. 31 Jan. 115/4 A Khrushchevian panache which still makes a refreshing contrast with the computerized newspeak that passes for political discourse among many of his successors. |