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Discourse and Identity Formation: Parliamentary debates in Bahrain
Lamya Alkooheji and Chitra Sinha
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Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
73] 2017
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Chapter 5
Ideology, identity and discourse
Evidence from parliamentary debates during 2008–2010
Article outline
Introduction
Structure of the Bahraini parliament
Discourse in the Bahraini parliament: An overview
Three discursive strategies
Corroborating by information
Intensifying grievance
Centralising pride and dignity
Discursive devices
Emotions in discourse
Taking emotions unemotionally
Variables affecting emotions
Emotions and language
Arabic language rhetoric
Style
Speech acts
Ideology, identity and discourse: Evidence from Bahrain parliamentary debates
1.
The use of teargas: From sitting 2:2:16, 12 Feb. 2008
A reproach: A backgrounded disagreement
A combination of grievance and information
Bahrain’s international image as a perspective
Disappointment
2.
The debate on Bahraini detainees abroad: From sitting 2:2:25 a, 22 April 2008
3.
Insulting the government: From sitting 2:2:25 b, 22 April 2008
4.
Condemning a “Terrorist” Plot: From sitting 2:3:10, 30 Dec. 2008
Beyond the text: on the background to the conflict
Analysis of the excerpt
a.
In-groupness and out-groupness
Patriotism through lexical style
Self-definition and othering
Rhetoric in suspecting the reliability of allegations
Framing and reframing of the defendants
Protesting through metaphors
Foregrounded argumentation: From dispute to conflict
Absolutes
Negations and indexical second-person pronouns
Discourse markers
Emphatics
Floor bids and flow
Modals of necessity and prediction
Repetition
Challenging questions
Short turns
Paving the way for expressing points of view
Individual comments and total “silences”
5.
The arrest of political activists: From sitting 2:3:13, 27 Jan. 2009
6.
Big and small thieves: From sitting 2:3:23, 7 April 2009
Political wit
Background to excerpt
7.
Eavesdropping: From sitting 2:4:3, 20 Oct. 2009
8.
The arrest of A. Hassan (a): From sitting 2:4:10, 22 Dec. 2009
9.
The arrest of A. Hassan (b): From sitting 2:4:11, 29 Dec. 2009
10.
Censoring a speech: From sitting 2:4:24, 30 Mar. 2010
11.
Activating a punishment decision: From sitting 2:4:28, 27 April 2010