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Synopsis
There is not a single book that gives a systematic description of George Orwell's views on language. George Orwell's Theory of Language is the first attempt to fill this gap. Author Andrei Reznikov puts together the pieces of Orwell's language puzzle, scattered throughout his essays, diaries, letters, radio talks and fiction, and proposes the Newspeak model as Orwell's way to formulate his theory. The theory is then tested with illustrative examples from three languages-modern English, Nazi German, and Soviet Russian. Finally, Reznikov describes bias-free language as an implementation of Orwell's ideas.