A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF POWER IN GEORGE ORWELL’S NOVEL 1984

Abstract

This paper presents a comprehensive Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 with a particular emphasis on the ruling totalitarian regime (the Party). Builds, regulates, and implements absolute socio-political control by means of language. This study is completely based on Norman Fairclough's three dimensional model, examines the process of power at three different levels: text description, discursive interpretation and sociocultural explanation. At the micro-level, the paper analyzes the vocabulary and syntactic structures which eradicate humanity agency. It examines historical discourse the institutional production and systematic forgery. At a macro-level it delineates the sociopolitical role of ideologies. The slogans and the way of doublethink. Finally, this study shows that how language becomes a form of architecture and how language is more than just censorship. Lastly, language as a reconstruction of cognitive reality.