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 surrounding the use of key lexical markers (e.g. Mammy), we investigate what they reveal about how the concept is represented, (de)constructed, and negotiated. The paper discusses the construction and deconstruction of the stereotype and the extent to which it draws on shared knowledge to reflect and navigate particular cultural values and concerns ( Hall 1997 ; Hall et al. 2013 ). It views the deconstruction, in particular, as a way of challenging the traditional stereotype, in light of societal change, to provide a more layered, realistic and multi-faceted insight into the identities of the Irish Mammy figure within the fictional context of Mrs Brown’s Boys.

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探索“布朗夫人的男孩”中爱尔兰妈妈的构建

本文探讨了爱尔兰妈妈的文化概念如何在流行的电视喜剧系列“布朗夫人的男孩”中被刻画。考虑到塑造刻板印象原型的爱尔兰人基本观点的历史性和文化方面，我们借鉴了从该系列中提取的（半）脚本虚构互动语料库。使用语料库辅助话语研究 (CADS) 方法来探索围绕使用关键词汇标记（例如 Mammy）的语言模式，我们调查它们揭示了如何表示、（解）构建和协商概念的内容。本文讨论了刻板印象的构建和解构，以及它在多大程度上利用共享知识来反映和引导特定的文化价值观和关注点（霍尔 1997 年；霍尔等人 2013 年）。