María Palma-Fahey
List of John Benjamins publications in which María Palma-Fahey is involved.
Articles
2018 Exploring the construction of the Irish Mammy in ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’: Making and breaking the stereotype Pragmatics and Society 9:2, pp. 297–328 | Article
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… read more
2015 “Yeah well, probably, you know I wasn’t that big into school, you know”: Pragmatic markers and the representation of Irish English in fictionalised dialogue Pragmatic Markers in Irish English, Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan (eds.), pp. 348–369 | Article
Research has asserted that communication is a dynamic process in which linguistic
choices are continuously being made in relation to a variety of linguistic
features including pragmatic markers (Vershueren 2000). Pragmatic markers
have been found to be frequently used in conversation serving a… read more