Creation of an Application "Dictionary of Keywords of Dystopian Novels" (Based on G.Orwell's "1984", O.Hucksley's "Brave New World")

Student: Adzhigitova Yuliya

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Applied Linguistics (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2016

In this paper we tried to simulate the basic principles of the artistic world of British dystopian novels (“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley and “1984” by George Orwell) based on keywords obtained by automatic word processing followed by manual processing of results. We identified the main differences and similarities of considered dystopias. We found that keywords can supplement observations of researchers. As the result, we created the web application “Dictionary of keywords British dystopia” that orientates to English-speakers interested in dystopias, philologists and linguists. It allows to search for keywords and topics and to explore the artistic world of British dystopian novels.

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