Slide #1 (1984 Newspeak): Arthur Intro: Earlier this year we all read the dystopian novel, 1984, by George Orwell. Where the protagonist, Winston, finds himself in a position where he’s aware of the main goals of the party-controlled language Newspeak. He is bilingual and is very well aware of the individual thought suppressing new language, Newspeak. Syme, a colleague of Winston, discusses how by 2050 the final edition of the dictionary will be finished and Newspeak will be the only predominant language. Syme stated “The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness”. The whole point of the language is to …show more content…
Hopefully if everything has been going well with your life, you’ve never thought of that. Now u just had that thought for the first time just because of the sound waves that I created and you interpreted. So that leaves the long standing question: do the languages we speak shape the way we …show more content…
The Zuni Language, studied by the researchers Lenneberg & Roberts. Lenneberg and Roberts carried out a study to investigate different language speakers’ ability to recall colour. They showed the tribe members and English speakers a sheet with a series of colours and asked them to recall the colours. The researchers reported that the Zuni people had significant difficulty recalling the colours yellow and orange. The reason for that was because the language Zuni only has one term for the colours yellow and orange. In juxtaposition to English speakers who were able to recall the colours and distinguish them without a problem. That was possible because the English speakers had available terms to distinguish them. The native Indians used their sense perception and their own language to recall the colours that they were shown, however they lacked the vocabulary and but not their cognitive ability of recognising what was