Linguagem e poder: uma análise discursiva da obra 1984 de George Orwell

Abstract

George Orwell’s 1984 portrays a dystopian society, in which the State imposes itself in a totalitarian way, both through situations related to language and power relations, and by controlling the actions of the population, influencing the lives of the subjects. To this end, the work has the following objectives: to analyze situations of power and manipulation by language described in the work 1984; to investigate the occurrences of the power relations presented in the novel; to examine how the language of the book is used to maintain the power exercised by the subjects; to identify how the subjects of the discourse are molded through the utterances presented in the narrative. For the development of this analysis, the present work consists of a qualitative interpretative bibliographic research on the literature review. The research was based on the analysis of the French line of discourse, which was possible through authors such as Dominique Maingueneau in his book Discourse and Discourse Analysis (2015), seeking to analyze the epistemological, theoretical and methodological issues of Discourse Analysis; Michel Foucault, in his two works Archaeology of Knowledge (2012) and the Order of Discourse (2014), in which the elements of power and ideology present in the works were observed; Michel Pêcheux and his ideological and discursive formation through O Discurso (2002) and Eni Orlandi through the book Análise de Discurso (2015)