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|b The slogans raised by the Lebanese revolution protesters include a specific language use which reveals power, perseverance, and determination. As such, the Lebanese revolution slogans have encouraged the researcher to unfold and analyze its significant traits. The purpose is to unveil notions of power, how the notions are transmitted, pinpoint the audience to which the slogans are directed to, and exhibit why the slogans are written in the way they are. Through the slogans, the demand of the protesters is as follows. They want to topple the governing regime and trial its officials. Hence, through the slogans raised by the revolution, the Lebanese protesters firmly believe that the political leaders must be held accountable for their power abuse and wrong doings. Although the slogans of the Lebanese revolution were trilingual: Arabic, French, and English, the data of the analysis roughly comprises 22 eclectic slogans from the Lebanese revolution originally written in English. The overall data is composed of 187 multilingual slogans. Moreover, in order to analyze the slogans of the Lebanese revolution, the researcher will employ van Dijk’s (1997, p.25) Ideology Schema as well as the morpho-syntactic features (van Dijk 1997 ) related to political discourse. The schema and the features enable the researcher to uncover how language is used by the protesters in order to express the dissatisfaction with the government and its unjust practices. Through this analysis, the researcher hopes that the present paper would be a contribution to the field of analyzing the slogans of the Arab Spring in general, and the Lebanese revolution in particular.
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