Structuralism, developed in the first decades of the 20th century by Saussure, focuses on the "underlying system of language" and its capacity to "govern the individual and thus determine meaning” (Metzker 2010). Saussure's development of semiotics, the study of the relationships between words and their meanings, can be applied to the Inner Party's political program aimed at creating a "stable" society. Ultimately, 1984 explores the ontological uncertainty over whether or not the construction of political reality and free human expression are tied to our existing language system – and whether a social institution would have to modify that language system to execute a political ideology, would it? succeed ? The Party's use of language, or Newspeak, allows it to eradicate any possibility of thoughtcrime by erasing all words – and their affiliates – that can lead to or even infer political anarchy. Newspeak does not contain any negative terms. For example, instead of saying “bad”, we would express our feelings with the word “bad”. Orwell conceded that the purpose of Newspeak was "not only to provide a means of expression for the world view and habits of mind peculiar to the followers of Ingsoc (English socialism), but also to make all other modes of thought", thus confirming the power of language as an instrument of political discourse