Bróna Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 6303279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bróna Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bróna |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Education Scotland |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-8547-5298 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exploring the construction of the Irish Mammy in ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’
This paper explores how the cultural concept of the Irish Mammy is portrayed in the popular television comedy series ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’. Considering the historicity and cultural aspects surrounding essential views of Irishness that have shaped the archetype of the stereotype, we draw on a corpus of (semi)scripted fictional interaction taken from the series. Using a Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) approach to explore linguistic patterning…
Exploring response tokens in Irish English — a multidisciplinary approach
Schneider & Barron (2008) discuss the effect of macro-social factors such as region, ethnic background, age, social status and gender on intra-lingual pragmatic conventions, and state that, to date, they have received comparatively little attention in the study of pragmatics. This paper chooses two macro-social factors, age and gender, and focuses on how they impact on the use of response tokens in Irish English. Not only does the paper shed ligh…
Baal/CUP seminars 2009
The Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh, UK; 7–8 May 2009 The seminar, organised by Joan Cutting and Bróna Murphy, aimed • to bring together researchers involved in both emergent and established academic corpora (written and spoken) as well as linguists, lecturers and teachers researching in education, be it language teaching, language-teacher training or continuing professional development in language awareness, all of w…
Religious references in contemporary Irish English
This article examines the nature and use of religious references across a range of contexts, and also age and gender groups to establish their patterning and functioning in contemporary English, with particular reference to Irish English. The examination is carried out by using quantitative and qualitative corpus-based tools and methodologies, such as relative frequency lists and concordances, as well as details of formulaic strings, including si…
Religious references in contemporary Irish English
This article examines the nature and use of religious references across a range of contexts, and also age and gender groups to establish their patterning and functioning in contemporary English, with particular reference to Irish English. The examination is carried out by using quantitative and qualitative corpus-based tools and methodologies, such as relative frequency lists and concordances, as well as details of formulaic strings, including si…
Exploring response tokens in Irish English — a multidisciplinary approach
Schneider & Barron (2008) discuss the effect of macro-social factors such as region, ethnic background, age, social status and gender on intra-lingual pragmatic conventions, and state that, to date, they have received comparatively little attention in the study of pragmatics. This paper chooses two macro-social factors, age and gender, and focuses on how they impact on the use of response tokens in Irish English. Not only does the paper shed ligh…
Religious references in contemporary Irish English
This article examines the nature and use of religious references across a range of contexts, and also age and gender groups to establish their patterning and functioning in contemporary English, with particular reference to Irish English. The examination is carried out by using quantitative and qualitative corpus-based tools and methodologies, such as relative frequency lists and concordances, as well as details of formulaic strings, including si…
Baal/CUP seminars 2009
The Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh, UK; 7–8 May 2009 The seminar, organised by Joan Cutting and Bróna Murphy, aimed • to bring together researchers involved in both emergent and established academic corpora (written and spoken) as well as linguists, lecturers and teachers researching in education, be it language teaching, language-teacher training or continuing professional development in language awareness, all of w…
Exploring response tokens in Irish English — a multidisciplinary approach
Schneider & Barron (2008) discuss the effect of macro-social factors such as region, ethnic background, age, social status and gender on intra-lingual pragmatic conventions, and state that, to date, they have received comparatively little attention in the study of pragmatics. This paper chooses two macro-social factors, age and gender, and focuses on how they impact on the use of response tokens in Irish English. Not only does the paper shed ligh…
Exploring the construction of the Irish Mammy in ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’
This paper explores how the cultural concept of the Irish Mammy is portrayed in the popular television comedy series ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’. Considering the historicity and cultural aspects surrounding essential views of Irishness that have shaped the archetype of the stereotype, we draw on a corpus of (semi)scripted fictional interaction taken from the series. Using a Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) approach to explore linguistic patterning…
Linguistics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Irish (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work)