NADSAT: THE SLENG IN DYSTOPIAN SOCIETY OF THE BURGESS’ A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Keywords:
Nadsat, linguistic characteristics, dystopian literature, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony BurgesAbstract
This article deals with a linguistic occurence in the English dystopian literature, the language called Nadsat – the unique linguistic creation of Anthony Burgess – which is an integral part of his novel A Clockwork Orange. Nadsat is recognized as a specific sleng of a dystopian society which significantly influences the dystopian surroundings. Its permanence is ensured within that literary context. Attention is focused, with examples, on the analysis of the Nadsat’s linguistic characteristics – morphological, semantic, phonological and pragmatic, as well as on its social and political character in one dystopian society. Burgess’ Nadsat represents a unique appearance in the English literature and, above all, an original mixture of the Russian and English language. The goal of this paper is to clarify the nature of Nadsat as a linguistic occurence, created within a literary frame, as well as to motivate the future research of the mutual relationship between language and dystopian literature. All this could contribute to the development of linguistics and of literary science.
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