Mary Jill Brody
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mary Jill Brody is involved.
Articles
2018 Chapter 5. Borrowed Spanish discourse markers in narrative: A comparison across three generations of Tojol-ab’al (Mayan) speakers Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change: Spanish across space and time, King, Jeremy and Sandro Sessarego (eds.), pp. 111–125 | Chapter
This pilot study examines texts from three generations of speakers of Tojol-ab’al, a Mayan language that has been in long-term contact with Spanish, to determine the influence from Spanish on Tojol-ab’al narrative discourse. Discourse markers borrowed from Spanish and those indigenous to… read more
2017 “You’re just workin’ for yourself”: Directive strategies in yoga instructional discourse Imperatives and Directive Strategies, Van Olmen, Daniël and Simone Heinold (eds.), pp. 159–180 | Chapter
In this paper, I examine directives uttered by yoga teachers to their students during classes, with special attention to their frequency of use and their degree of modification. Yoga instructional discourse is shown to be characterized by a wide range of directives, from bald imperatives to… read more