Discourse Analysis of the Defenses of February 14th Bahrain Movement at the Al-Khalifa Military Tribunal

Abstract

The Bahraini government tried to suppress the Bahraini people's movement on February 14, 2011, with the trial of mostly Shi'ite leaders. The political defenses of February 14th leaders in the Bahraini military tribunals can be seen as another area of continuation of political contention against the government, so that the trial of revolutionary leaders has become a confrontation between two discourses. This article seeks to elucidate and analyze the attitudes of the leaders of the February 14th Bahrain Movement. Indeed, this study, by analyzing the discourse of the Bahraini leadership's defenses, is seeking to answer the question that the leaders of the February 14th movement, who have been in Bahrain since 2011, how do they defend themselves in response to al-Khalifa's allegations? The results of this paper, which are descriptive-analytic and library-based sources, show that these individuals have used the most from the use of quantitative and qualitative variables from vocabulary, metaphor and interests cases to defend themselves. The reason for this is the social position of the leaders, their level of knowledge and skills in speech and writing, because they all had high level of science and most of them are the leaders of the political groups and have been associated with different classes and groups. In the end, this research will express the imagined horizon facing this movement and will explain the type of political structure of power that has emerged in Bahraini society.

Keywords

• discourse analysis
• defenses
• february 14 movement leaders
• al khalifa
• bahrain