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  1. 16. The Viability of Orwell's Newspeak : through the theory of Saussurean semiotics

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildning

    Författare :Jennifer Lidfors Andersson; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Structuralism; semiotics; Saussure; Newspeak; 1984; Orwell; sign; linguistic community;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Internet Surveillance Law in the UK and Article 8 'Right to Privacy'

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Författare :Spencer Whiskard; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Internet; Surveillance; Article 8; Right to Privacy; Technology; ECHR; ECtHR; IPA 2016; Investigatory Powers Act 2016; Hacking; Data; Digital; 1984; Freedom; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : The danger that mass surveillance poses to concepts of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ have long been a topic of fiction as well as of hard academic study. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is a work that some might disregard as mere post-apocalyptic whimsy but its arguably accurate recreation and prediction of the methods utilized by the totalitarian government to maintain absolute control over a population serves to give the novella a grim level of scholastic technicality and precision. LÄS MER

  4. 18. The Ministry of Post-Truth: Using George Orwell’s 1984 to Develop English as a Foreign Language Students’ Critical Thinking Skills

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Alexander Hudberg; [2018]
    Nyckelord :EFL; Critical thinking; George Orwell; 1984; Dystopian Fiction; Post-truth; Alternative Facts; Fake News; Critical literacy pedagogy;

    Sammanfattning : In 2016, “post-truth” was chosen as the word of the year by the Oxford Dictionaries. This is a concept that has come to be associated with a type of political discourse in which objective facts are less important than factual inaccuracies which appeal to emotion to influence people’s attitudes. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Dystopiernas möjligheter : En litteraturdidaktisk studie om hur dystopisk skönlitteratur kan användas i ämnesövergripande arbete

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Fredrik Ahlqvist; Madeleine Flodin; [2017]
    Nyckelord :dystopi; ämnesövergripande arbete; skönlitteratur; litteraturdidaktik;

    Sammanfattning : I det här arbetet undersöker vi hur man kan arbeta med dystopisk skönlitteratur som primärt verktyg i ämnesövergripande arbete på gymnasiet. Vi undersöker också hur ett sådant arbete kan främja elevernas kritiska tänkande och hur det kan gynna lärare i yrket. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Reading Orwell’s Animals : An animal-oriented study of George Orwell’s political satire Animal Farm

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Författare :Hanna Boremyr; [2017]
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