Varje omvälvande händelse i Rysslands historia har fört med sig en språklig brytpunkt som inletts med en momentan tillkomst av tidstypiska ord och yttryck. Denna uppsats undersöker om den ”militära specialoperationen” som inleddes den 24 februari 2022 är början på en sådan omvälvande händelse även i ett språkligt hänseende. Syftet med denna studie är undersöka ryska ord och yttryck under kriget i Ukraina genom att ta avstamp i begreppet nyspråk (rys. novojaz; eng. Newspeak) i George Orwells roman ”1984” och i den ryska språkforskningen. Studien undersöker detta genom att identifiera och analysera några frekventa ryska ord och uttryck som kommit att bli karakteristiska för diskursen i rysk media i Ryssland, i rysk media i exil, i ukrainsk media i Ukraina samt i det som kanske kan benämnas som oppositionell ukrainsk media. Undersökningen har använt sig av kvalitativa och kvantitativa lingvistiska metoder, som utgår från ordets och begreppets definition vid detaljanalysen av urvalet. Ett försök att bedöma förekomsterna har gjorts från ett urval av relevanta tidningsartiklar och Telegramkanaler från de ovannämnda mediala grupperingarna. Insamling av material har fortlöpt sen den 24 februari 2022 och varit föremål för omprövning då bland annat en övervägande del av de oberoende ryska medierna gått i exil och den tvåspråkiga ukrainsk-ryska publiceringen i Ukraina minskat. Vidare har avlyssnade ryska soldaters telefonsamtal hem till familjen analyserats för förekomster av karakteristiska ord och uttryck. Studien ger indikationer på att nya ord och uttryck som används i en medial top-down-kaskad inte nödvändigtvis påverkar det produktiva ordvalet hos befolkningen i stort, detta trots en ibland massiv förekomst i allehanda kommunikativa kanaler. / <p>Opponent: Josephine Wennerström</p>

In this thesis I mainly analyzed the canonical dystopian works, like J. Zamjatin We and G. Orwell 1984, based on this observation I circumscribe the five criteria by which the dystopian fictional world works. In the following sections, I observed the role and place of these criteria in the 20th century Czech literature works.

The aim of this thesis is to compare two distinct principles of making new linguistic style and their role in fictional society. The thesis will present both novels (Burgess' A Clockwork Orange and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four) and then it will focus on function and principles of making neologisms used in these novels. In the end the thesis will focus on summarization of both principles and it will analyze the language role in both novels.

Set in the totalitarian society of Oceania, George Orwell’s 1984 illustrates how a government can exert complete control over its citizens through surveillance, manipulation, and more central to this essay, language. By employing a structuralist framework based on Ferdinand de Saussure’s research on semiotics and the system of language, this essay investigates the viability of Newspeak as a language. It does so by using the aspects of arbitrariness, value, difference, the collective, and mutability to discern to what extent Orwell’s Newspeak aligns with Saussure’s theory of how languages function. In addition, it looks at how these language changes can be observed using specific examples of the novel. The essay finds that the implementation of Newspeak is entirely reliant on other areas of the government’s totalitarian oppression in order to be feasibly implemented, as semiotic theory argues language is a product of the collective and, as such, cannot be constructed by a group of individuals. The essay thus concludes that Newspeak as a constructed language is not viable, as over time, the language will inevitably return to the hands of the collective consciousness, and once that happens, the language will begin to change according to the needs of the linguistic community.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Fernando Assis dos Santos.pdf: 1536485 bytes, checksum: a5ecc665cf98dff5e1e30e09968b8a13 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-29 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This research discusses the concept of language present in George Orwell´s book 1984 and relates it with the official concept of language of Russia during the 1920´s and 1930´s . For doing this, we chose as study object the book 1984 from which we selected newspeak as the corpus of analyses. Newspeak consists of a language system that´s is being created by the government of the plot and once it is finished and put into practice, would impeach people to have different opinions from the government and the existence of the other languages would also be impossible. The main feature of newspeak is that it is being constructed through the destruction of the current language. On the other side, we have the official Russian linguistics of the 30´s that has a similar project of destruction of the linguistic material and creation of a single universal language. Our objective in this research is to describe, analyze and interpretate through the linguistic-discursive newspeak material, the discourses that constitutes the book and establish dialogic relations between newspeak and the official russian linguistics of the 30´s, period which the book makes analogies. We inquire in this research what is the concept of language of Newspeak and the official russian linguistics of the 1920´s and 1930´s, which dialogic relations can be established between both concepts, which dialogic relations can be stablished between the newspeak lexical group that relates crime with the idea of disagreement of the government policies and the stanist society concerning the same matter and which language knowledge our dialogic relation meets. This research reconstruct some discourses about the Russian revolutionary period since the czarism regime until the great purge, it also identifies the official Russian linguistics theory of the 20´s and 30´s, and shows how 1984 materialize the discourses concerning the speech restriction policies that come from this historical period. Our methodology for the corpus´ construction was done based on the following steps; a) Describe the process of destruction of the current language; b) Identification of the term Newspeak and the terms in Newspeak through all narrative; (c) Construction of a glossary that has the definition of the words in Newspeak. Through the description of newspeak and the analyses of two linguistics marks, it was possible to realize that the human language either in life or in art, is able to create compensatory mechanisms that weakens and cancel the forces that struggles to finish with the heteroglossia that keeps the human language ideologically saturated. We also indentify the diference between the fictional language and the scientific one: the former there is not any diference between the act of uttering and the utterance, whereas the latter this difference is part of the discourse genre. This research is based on Bakhtinian´s circle theory, that discusses language through its social historical point of view. We used the concept of axiology, ideological sign, infrastructure and superstructure, monologism, dialogism, centripetal forces and centrifugal forces / Este trabalho discute o conceito de língua/linguagem em 1984 de George Orwell e relaciona esse conceito com o da linguística oficial russa das décadas de 1920/1930. Para tanto, selecionamos, especificamente, a novilíngua como corpus de pesquisa. A novilíngua consiste em um sistema linguístico elaborado pelos detentores do poder da ficção orwelliana que, quando finalizado e colocado em uso, impediria a expressão de opiniões contrárias ao regime e a existência de outras línguas. A característica central para a existência da novilíngua é a destruição da língua vigente. Ao pesquisarmos a política linguística oficial russa das décadas de 1920 e 1930, descobrimos um projeto similar de destruição das línguas existentes e de criação de uma língua única. Nosso objetivo de pesquisa, portanto, é descrever, analisar e interpretar, por meio da materialidade linguístico-discursiva da novilíngua, os discursos históricos que atravessam a obra e, a partir daí, estabelecer relações dialógicas entre o conceito de língua/linguagem de 1984 e esse mesmo conceito na linguística oficial russa das décadas de 1920/1930. Questionamos em nosso trabalho qual é o conceito de língua/linguagem da novilíngua e da linguística oficial russa das décadas de 1920/1930, quais relações dialógicas podem ser estabelecidas entre o conceito da novilíngua e esse mesmo conceito da linguística oficial russa dos anos 1930, quais relações dialógicas podem serestabelecidas entre o léxico da novilíngua, que trata o pensamento discordante ao sistema totalitário como crime, e a sociedade stalinista no que diz respeito à restrição da liberdade de expressão e quais conhecimentos sobre a linguagem humana nossa análise dialógica vai de encontro. Este estudo recupera alguns discursos que circulam sobre a história da Rússia desde o final do período czarista até o auge do expurgo stalinista, identifica a teoria linguística oficial da Rússia das décadas de 1920/1930 e mostra como a obra 1984, de Orwell, materializa os discursos advindos desse período histórico. Nossa metodologia para composição do corpus e descrição da novilíngua obedeceu à seguinte dinâmica: a) descrever o processo de destruição da língua vigente para a construção da novilíngua; b) levantamento do termo novilíngua e dos termos em novilíngua, em toda a narrativa; c) construção de um glossário que contém a definição das palavras em novilíngua. Por meio da descrição da novilíngua e da nossa respectiva análise, foi possível constatar que a linguagem humana, tanto na vida como na arte, é capaz de criar mecanismos compensatórios que atenuam e anulam as forças que querem acabar com o plurilinguísmo e assim manter a linguagem humana, mesmo sob forte coerção de sistemas políticos totalitários, pluriacentuada e ideologicamente saturada. Identificamos também a diferença entre a linguagem científica e a ficcional: na linguagem científica não há divergência entre o enunciado e a enunciação; na linguagem ficcional essa divergência é constituinte. Este trabalho está embasado pela teoria Bakhtiniana, que discute a linguagem pelo seu viés sócio-histórico ideológico. Utilizamos os conceitos de axiologia, signo ideológico, infraestrutura e superestrutura, dialogismo, forças centrípetas e centrífugas.

In my dissertation Theory of Petrified Worlds on the Example of Anti-Utopian and Dystopian Literature, I deal with anti-utopian and dystopian literature, which has been largely neglected by Czech scholarship. After the introduction to the issue I deal with the detailed analysis of the novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, after which I devote my attention to the theoretical definition of terms, including the historical mapping of previous research. I focus on the historical context of the emergence of the genres, including a deeper analysis of its beginnings, i.e. the development of utopian literature from Plato to William Morris and Herbert George Wells, and in detail describe the emergence of anti-utopian literature primarily as an opposition to utopian tendencies and its evolution into dystopia. A major part of the work deals with a specific semiotic analysis of the characteristic and constitutive features of the genres of anti-utopian and dystopian literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. This includes, among other things, the closed and petrified world of the novels, which gave the name to the presented theory, the strict division of society, the existence of newspeak, the characteristics of the main and secondary characters, as well as the social and political context of the analysed works. In...