Corpus and Sociolinguistics: Investigating age and gender in female talk
Bróna Murphy
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 38] 2010. xviii, 231 pp.
Bróna Murphy
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bróna Murphy plays a role.
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Subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 A corpus-based investigation of pragmatic markers and sociolinguistic variation in Irish English Pragmatic Markers in Irish English, Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan (eds.), pp. 65–88 | Article
This chapter aims to explore how pragmatic markers like and sure behave when investigated from an age and gender perspective. Using a small sociolinguistic-oriented corpus, the study adopts a multidisciplinary approach to reveal insights into socially-conditioned linguistic variation in Irish… read more
2012 Exploring response tokens in Irish English — a multidisciplinary approach: Integrating variational pragmatics, sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17:3, pp. 325–348 | Article
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… read more
2012 “I’m fine girl, and how are you?”: The use of vocatives in spoken Irish English New Perspectives on Irish English, Migge, Bettina and Máire Ní Chiosáin (eds.), pp. 203–224 | Article
The use of phatic communion and small talk are obvious examples of how interpersonal relationships are built and maintained. This paper explores the use of vocatives, which play an equally important part in the affective realm of communication. This paper uses corpus-based tools and methodologies… read more