Newspeak and Story

My favorite book in high school was 1984. I was fascinated with the idea of Newspeak, restricting language to avoid the thought of the idea.  This idea is in conflict with ideas from Walter Fishers “The Narrative Paradigm.”  The Narrative Paradigm discusses how men communicate through story.  This causes a problem for 1984’s concept of newspeak.  If we communicate primarily through story it would not be the restriction of particular emotion words that keep us from expressing that emotion, it would be through the restriction of the stories that portray that emotion.  If one hears the word hope there is no meaning to it, unless one can relate that word to a story either personal or otherwise that expresses that emotion. The restriction of empty words does nothing if the stories are still around to express the emotion.  Walter Fisher better understood, it is not the words but the meaning behind them that have true meaning.