define newspeak
Newspeak is the language of Oceania, a fictional totalitarian state ruled by the Party, who created the language to meet the ideological requirements of English Socialism. In the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Newspeak is a controlled language, of restricted grammar and limited vocabulary, a linguistic design meant to limit the freedom of thoughtâpersonal identity, self-expression, free willâthat ideologically threatens the regime of Big Brother and the Party, who thus criminalized such ...