In:Discourse and Identity Formation: Parliamentary debates in Bahrain
Lamya Alkooheji and Chitra Sinha
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 73] 2017
► pp. 69–176
Chapter 5Ideology, identity and discourse
Evidence from parliamentary debates during 2008–2010
Published online: 15 December 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.73.c5
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.73.c5
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
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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
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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
- 1.The use of teargas: From sitting 2:2:16, 12 Feb. 2008
