What is it about?
The article looks at how the scriptwriters use language to challenge the stereotype of the Irish Mammy to provide a more layered, realistic and multi-faceted insight into who she is in a contemporary fictional media context.
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Why is it important?
The ways the stereotype is challenged reflects change around gender roles and insights into gay sexuality within an Irish sociocultural context.
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This page is a summary of: Exploring the construction of the Irish Mammy in ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’, Pragmatics and Society, June 2018, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/ps.16022.mur.
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