Which author is responsible for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where the concept of Newspeak exemplifies the increased linguistic awareness characteristic of modernist literature?

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Explanation

The correct answer is George Orwell, who wrote *Nineteen Eighty-Four*. In this novel, Newspeak is a fictional language created to limit freedom of thought, reflecting the modernist writers' focus on language and its impact on perception. The other authors listed did not write this particular work.

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Which author is responsible for the dystopian novel *Nineteen Eighty-Four*, where the concept of Newspeak exemplifies the increased linguistic awareness characteristic of modernist literature?

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Which author is responsible for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where the concept of Newspeak exemplifies the increased linguistic awareness characteristic of modernist literature?