SQUEALER’S USE OF EUPHEMISM AND DOUBLESPEAK IN GEORGE ORWELL’S ANIMAL FARM

Chinyere Alozie-Onumadu

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This paper reviewed the various communicative functions of euphemism and the implication of doublespeak. Politeness theory developed by Brown and Levison in 1978, Goffman’s theory of face and Steven McCornack’s Information Manipulation Theory founded in 1992 were adopted in analyzing Squealer’s utterances in Orwell’s Animal Farm. In describing the communicative functions of euphemism and implication of doublespeak, the descriptive research design and the qualitative method were used to analyze nine utterances from Squealer. From the analysis, the researcher found out that although euphemism and doublespeak are inter-related, the phenomena differ. The study also revealed that doublespeak can be notorious in conversation.

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