Updated 17.12.2025
Teaching at University of Alcalá/ Enseñanza en la Universidad de Alcalá (UAH). Flipped classroom practitioner/ Practicante de metodología de aula invertida.
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This is my ORCID researcher identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4160-169X . Researcher ID: F-7995-2017
Visiting professor at Sheffield Hallam University (01 July-31 December 2019), while doing research on (im)politeness in computer mediated discourse, funded by the Spanish Ministery of Science, Innovation and Higher Education . Member of the Linguistic Politeness Research Group.
LATEST PUBLICATIONS:
Santamaría García, Carmen and Ventola, Eija (eds.) (2026) A Multimodal Approach to Picturebooks on Migration and Migrants. New York/London: Routledge.
Santamaría-García, C. (2025)‘I’m So Angry!’ Anger and Offence Taking in Calls to an Insurance Company, in Alba Juez, L. and Haugh, M. (eds.) The Sociopragmatics of Emotion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
MIAMUL research Project (01.09.2022-31.08.2025)
Children's picture books about MIgration: Multimodal Analysis and Applicability to MULticultural and multilingual environments.
Libros-álbum infantiles sobre migración: análisis multimodal y aplicabilidad en entornos multiculturales y multilingües
PROGRAMA: PROYECTOS DE GENERACIÓN DE CONOCIMIENTO
ENTIDAD FINANCIADORA: MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA E INNOVACIÓN
REFERENCIA: PID2021-124786OB-I00
INVESTIGADORA PRINCIPAL 1: Izaskun Elorza (Universidad de Salamanca) iea@usal.es y lindes@usal.es
INVESTIGADORA PRINCIPAL 2: Carmen Santamaría García (Univ. de Alcalá) mcarmen.santamaria@uah.es
AMULIT research Project (2018-2021)
La construcción del discurso en los LIbros-Álbum infantiles que cuestionan estereotipos de género y el concepto de familia tradicional. Un Análisis MULtimodal. The construction of discourse in children’s picture books that challenge gender stereotypes and traditional family values.
Proyecto I+D de excelencia FFI2017-85306-P
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad
Research leader: JESÚS MOYA GUIJARRO (UCLM)
EMO-FUNDETT research Project (2014-2018)
EMOtion and language 'at work': The discursive emotive/evaluative FUNction in DiffErent Texts and contexts within corporaTe and institutional work
Proyecto I+D de excelencia FFI2013-47792-C2-1-P
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Research leader: Laura Alba Juez (UNED Madrid)
General Coordinator: Shelley Doolan (UWTSD)
Coordinator at UAH: Carmen Santamaría
REF. 588387-EPP-1-2017-1-UK-EPPKA2-KA
01/01/2018 - 31/12/2020
AHEH is a major new European 3-year project that brings together an alliance of 14 partners from 7 European countries, led by Swansea College of Art, UWTSD. Partners from academia and industry will work together to jointly research, design, test and disseminate a programme of entrepreneurial training for Arts and Humanities staff and students.
The BEST+ project (2016-2018) aims to innovate the way university staff working in international relations develop their competences. To achieve this goal, a cost efficient new methodology of blended staff mobility will be piloted combining traditional physical mobility with online courses. An online platform is being developed, which will serve as a community platform for university staff members working in international relations.
BEST+ has created three different courses relevant to improving the work of university staff and the quality of mobility. Additionally, the project will devise guidelines for blended staff mobility, describing the different methodologies that can be used to efficiently run blended staff mobility courses and how to implement them in this online platform. Lastly, the project has the ambition to have a significant impact on EU policies, being part of an important policy shift towards a more digital Higher Education that is globally competitive.
Santamaría García, Carmen and Bruno Echauri Galván (2018) ”Spain Out of the Closet: Homosexuality in Spanish Society and Education”. In K. De Witte, O. Holz and L. Geunis (Eds.) Somewhere over the Rainbow. Münster, New York: Waxmann. 103-115.
ISBN: 978-3-8309-3747-0 E-book: 978-3-8309-8747-5
Finnish Lists: 1; Norwegian Lists (CRISTIN): 1, IE-CSIC (nivel alto).
In this article, a review is presented of the current situation regarding the social consideration of homosexuality in Spain, both in education and society. In order to establish a framework for the current situation, a retrospective look in our recent history will explore the social consideration of gender and homosexuality, as rooted in the models for education in general and gender education in particular. Special mention will be made to the situation regarding homosexuality in secondary education, the initiatives taking place outside schools and the representation of the homosexual community in Spanish literature, as an example of how homosexuality might be on its way to gain value by means of new models for its representation.
Santamaría García, C. (2019) The role of homoparental blogs in normalising homoparenthood. In V. Chiou, O. Holz, N- Oruç Erturk, F. Shelton (eds.) International Insights: Equality in Education. Münster, New York: Waxmann. 213-222. ISBN 978-3-8309-4022-7
Finnish Lists: 1; Norwegian Lists (CRISTIN): 1, IE-CSIC (nivel alto).
This paper explores lesbian and gay (LG) parenthood in a sample of homoparental blogs together with their associated Facebook, Instagram or Twitter accounts. I have chosen to analyse evaluative discourse in the expectation that it will reflect the most relevant values associated with LG parenthood and their role in its normalisation. Evaluative discourse refers to the expression of attitude, defined by appraisal theory as ways of feeling and including the meanings of affect, judgement and appreciation (Martin & White 2005, Bednarek 2008, Thompson & Alba-Juez 2014). Politeness theory (Brown & Levinson 1987, Spencer-Oatey [2000], 2008) has also been used as an analytic tool, as some politeness strategies, such as claiming common ground and conveying cooperation, seem pervasive in the social practices of the discursive construction of homoparenthood. Results have been contrasted with previous analysis of heteroparental blogs (Santamaría-García, 2016) and some similarities and differences are discussed together with their possible social implications.
ERUM (2019-2021) is an Erasmus+ funded project (project number: 2019-1-AT01-KA203-051482) which intends to improve the educational offer on quality of information in the field of higher education as well as the development of students’ transversal competences in terms of media literacy, evidence-based communication and resilience to misinformation, disinformation and “fake news”.
LLOM (2018-2021) Erasmus+ Key Action 2, aims to promote multilingualism, diversify language teaching and learning opportunities in the EU and ensure accessibility to high quality language learning material and support systems for EU languages.
Objectives:
– Developing open education resources/courses (OER) for teacher education students and an accompanying material for academic/teaching staff (as part of professional development) to offer a wider methodological tool set in the area of digital learning methods, approaches and types.
– Developing a mobile App for language learning that offers open and free mobile learning opportunities to anyone interested in the further acquisition of EU languages and that allows diversifying teaching methodologies for language teaching centres, as well as current and future language teachers.
Partners: Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, University of Alcalá, University of Aveiro, University of Eastern Finland, University of Lodz, University of Vienna, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, European University Foundation
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Santamaría-García, C., 2022. How Can I Help You? Exploring Face in a Corpus of Telephone Interpreting. Corpus Pragmatics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-022-00130-x
This study explores relational work in telephone interpreting interaction (EnglishSpanish) at the call center of an insurance company in Spain. Analysis focuses on the discursive construction of (im)politeness oriented to personal and professional face in a complaint call by an English-speaking customer, estimating its impact on rapport. The intensity of face threats and face-enhancing acts has been gauged on the basis of the amount of face-change predicated and the amount of face at stake in the interactive situation, considering the role played by behavioral expectations, face sensitivities and interactional wants, drawing on a rapport management model of (im)politeness. Results show that face change, i.e., the occurrence of inconsistencies between FTAs and claimed self-image, seems to depend less on formal linguistic aspects and more on interactants’ consideration of what is appropriate or inappropriate behavior, based on the frames that individuals have constructed through their own histories of social practice. Professional face overrides personal face for both the operator and the interpreter, whereas the customer orients to both their personal and professional faces, enhancing personal face and attacking professional face, in an attempt to achieve his goals.
Telephone interpreting · Relating · Face · Relational dialectic · Rapport · English · Spanish
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Santamaría-García, Carmen (2021) "Gender identity in interaction: overcoming heteronormativity". Revista: Feminismos. 38. (203- 229).
ISSN: 1989-9998| DOI: 10.14198/fem
The present article reviews theoretical concepts that can contribute to the analysis of the construction of gender identity in interaction, moving on from heteronormativity, understood as the normalization of heterosexuality as the only, or more, legitimate form of sexuality. Identity is discussed together with the concepts of face, rapport and (im)politeness from a discursive approach (van der Bom & Mills, 2015). It is argued that gender identity face builds on attributes of both respectability and identity faces with differing strengths and saliency depending on the individuals and the context. Analysis is limited to the construction of hetero and gay male gender identities in interaction with women in academic contexts and draws on data from a corpus of naturally occurring interactions compiled by the author. Gay males seem to differ from hetero males in their choice of resources for doing face-enhancing positive politeness and rapport with their female colleagues. Despite the limited size of the sample, the study hopes to contribute to a better understanding of the construction of gender identity from a discursive approach.
Gender; Face; Identity; Rapport; (Im)politeness.
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Santamaría-García, C. (2017) "Emotional and Educational Consequences of (Im)politeness in Teacher–Student Interaction at Higher Education". Corpus Pragmatics 1(3): pp.233-255.
ISSN 2509-9507. ISSN e- 2509-9515
doi:10.1007/s41701-017-0010-2
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41701-017-0010-2
In this article, I will explore some of the emotional and educational consequences of (im)politeness and rapport management in teacher-student interaction (T-S interaction, henceforth) at higher education, with reference to their influence in motivation and learning. Politeness theory (Brown and Levinson 1978, 1987) will be extended to include a discursive approach to the management of interpersonal relations (Spencer-Oatey 2008), and further developments towards the expression of impoliteness. (Im)politeness and rapport management will be analysed in combination with self-determination (Deci and Ryan 1985) and appraisal theories (Martin and White 2000, 2005, Hunston and Thompson 2000, Thompson and Alba-Juez 2014) in order to examine the role of motivation and negative evaluative meanings in the construction of impoliteness in interaction.
Data have been extracted from a corpus that is being compiled by the author. It contains classroom interaction, email exchanges and higher education students’ reports on their perception of (im)politeness and rapport in their academic lives. The data have been processed and analysed combining Corpus Linguistics (CL), Conversation Analysis (CA) and systemic functional Discourse Analysis (DA). Results show that the discourse of teaching typically contains many rapport sensitive discourse acts and that their face-aggravating potential increases when conveying negative evaluative language and when students present a challenging orientation to rapport due to different reasons, being lack of intrinsic motivation an important one.
Other aspects which can result in face aggravation such as different expectations regarding sociality rights and obligations will be discussed. As T-S interaction has effects not only on the relations created among teachers and students but also on the teaching-learning process, it seems essential that the involved parties become aware of the impact of rapport management and of the fact that learning is facilitated by good interpersonal rapport but can be seriously undermined by its absence.
Pragmatics (Im)politeness theory Appraisal theory Evaluative language Rapport management Classroom management Motivation
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Farnia, M., & Sheibani, Z. (2019). Cross-cultural Study of Iranian and English Students’ Impoliteness and Threat Responses. Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, 12(24), 68-90.
Johnson, M. J. (2018). Examiner feedback and learning: What are the characteristics of effective remote feedback in a hierarchic, professional context. University of Cambridge Diss.
Hintikka, O. (2019). Impoliteness in the EFL Classroom: Typical features and teachers’ strategies. Helsinki: University of Helsinki.
Luna de la Luz, Verónica et al. (2019) Conflictos entre profesores y estudiantes al iniciar la formación médica: un estudio con incidentes críticos. Investigación en Educación Médica (8) 31, 9-17.
Mudiono, A. (2019). Teaching Politeness for Primary School Students in Indonesia: Mediating Role of Self Efficacy and Self Esteem of Learners. Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 10(4), 427-445.
Napoli, Vittorio. "“You’re such an idiot, but I’m only joking”: The perception of mock impoliteness by British and Italian men and women" Intercultural Pragmatics, vol. 21, no. 4, 2024, pp. 541-572. https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2024-4003.
Suroso, Eko, Suwandi, Sarwiji, & Sumarlam. (2017). Politeness Implicature On Short Message Service (Sms) Text Written By College Students Sent To Their Lecturers As A Media Development Of Affective Assessment In Higher Educations. Proceedings Of The 4th Asia Pacific Education Conference (Aecon 2017), 109, 77-82.
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This journal offers a forum for theoretical and applied linguists to publish and discuss research in the new linguistic discipline that stands at the intersection of corpus linguistics and pragmatics. The objective is to develop pragmatics with the aid of quantitative corpus methodology.
Santamaría-García, Carmen (2011). "Bricolage assembling: CL, CA and DA to explore the negotiation of agreement in English and Spanish conversation". Farr, Fiona and Anne O'Keeffe (eds.) Applying Corpus Linguistics. Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 16: 3. 345-370. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
ISSN (Online) 1569-9811 ISSN (Print)1384-6655
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.19.3 DOI with link: 10.1075/ijcl.16.3.04san
http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/ijcl.16.3.04san
This article illustrates the use of spoken corpora for a contrastive study of casual conversation in English and Spanish. It models an eclectic methodology for cross-linguistic comparison at the level of discourse, specifically of exchange structures, by drawing upon analytic resources from corpus linguistics (CL), conversation analysis (CA) and discourse analysis (DA). This combination of perspectives presents challenges and limitations which will be discussed and exemplified through a case study that explores agreement and disagreement sequences. English data have been retrieved from the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English (SBCSAE; cf. Du Bois et al. 2000, 2003) and Spanish data from Corpus Oral de Referencia del Español Contemporáneo (CORLEC). The case study reveals the need for spoken corpora to include complete conversations, discourse annotation, sound files and detailed contextual information. This means a step forward from corpora of spoken language to discourse corpora and a challenge for CL, CA and DA in the near future.
Conversation analysis, corpus annotation, discourse analysis, spoken corpora
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Pérez, L. M. (2016). El software de análisis de corpus aplicado a la docencia de lFE: propuesta metodológica. Encuentro: revista de investigación e innovación en la clase de idiomas, (25), 62-75.
Milà-Garcia, A. Corpus Pragmatics (2018) 2: 265. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-018-0037-z
Suroso, Eko, Suwandi, Sarwiji, & Sumarlam. (2017). Politeness Implicature On Short Message Service (Sms) Text Written By College Students Sent To Their Lecturers As A Media Development Of Affective Assessment In Higher Educations. Proceedings Of The 4th Asia Pacific Education Conference (Aecon 2017), 109, 77-82.
Conference proceedings quoting this article:
Best Practices for Speech Corpora in Linguistic Research. Workshop Programme. Univ. of Hamburg. 21 May 2012.
Paper: Constructing General and Dialectal Corpora for Language Variation Research: Two Case Studies from Turkish. Su..kriye Ruhi, E. Eda Isik Tas. Middle East Technical University, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus.Turkey
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Doctoral dissertations quoting this article:
HANAN HASAN EID WAER: WHY THAT LANGUAGE, IN THAT CONTEXT, RIGHT NOW?: THE USE OF THE L1 IN L2 CLASSROOM INTERACTION IN AN EGYPTIAN SETTING. Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Integrated PhD in Education and Applied Linguistics. Newcastle University
School of Education, Communication, and Language Sciences
Link to journal: http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/resla/main
This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: Linguistics Abstracts, Periodicals Index On-line, Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), CSA Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts (LLBA), MLA International Bibliography, MLA Directory of Periodicals, ISOC-Social Science and Humanities Index (CINDOC-CSIC), Spanish Index of Social Science and Humanities Journals-RESH (CINDOC-CSIC), LATINDEX (Directory and Selected Catalogue), European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition, Social Scisearch, RESH (Revistas españolas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, CINDOC-CSIC), and Scopus.
Santamaría García, Carmen (2013) "The Discourse of Social Networking Sites in Student Communication with Peers”. Resla. Special issue Communications and Learning Context in LSP: New Perspectives on Genre Analysis. S. Molina & A. Roldán (eds.) Amsterdam: Benjamins. 123-142.
ISSN 0213-2028 | E-ISSN 2254-6774
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This paper explores some of the constitutive features and functions of the discourse of social networking sites (henceforth SNSs) that may contribute to define it as a genre. Nowadays, SNSs are being used for personal, professional, and commercial uses. Discussion will focus on personal interaction among university students on a particular social networking site, i.e., Facebook, which shares common essential features with any other SNS. SNSs have changed the way students interact for the specific purpose of constructing their identities and personal relationships, allowing for their engagement with a community of peers in a virtually constructed campus. The corpus used in the present study consists of a random sample of 200 messages sent among university students in the United Kingdom and the United States during 2010-2011. I will approach genre analysis in this virtual, academic context, following Bhatia (1993, 2004, 2008) by stressing the importance of communicative purpose, conventions and the propensity to innovation by users in the definition of a genre. Working within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) (Halliday 2004/1994/1985), hence considering genre as a social activity, I will combine appraisal theory, the system for the expression of evaluation (Martin and White 2005), with politeness theory (Brown and Levinson 1987) in order to attempt an explanation accounting for the organization of discourse in SNSs.
Genre, appraisal, evaluative language, computer-mediated discourse.
Maíz Arévalo, Carmen and Carmen Santamaría García (2013) “Hibridismo entre el lenguaje oral y el escrito: La comunicación a través del ordenador y las nuevas redes sociales” Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos nº 761. Madrid. 69-85.
ISSN 0011-250X
En este artículo presentamos diversos aspectos de interés relacionados con la comunicación a través del ordenador, centrándonos en las características específicas de la comunicación en las redes sociales y más concretamente en Facebook (FB). La oralización del texto escrito, es decir, texto que reproduce rasgos característicos de la conversación y que incluso a veces se lee reconstruyendo mental o verbalmente dichos rasgos, ha dado lugar a un nuevo género textual, híbrido entre el lenguaje oral y escrito. En las próximas páginas mostraremos algunas de las características más sobresalientes que definen este género e ilustraremos su producción con ejemplos de nuestras investigaciones que revelan algunos aspectos novedosos de la comunicación a través del ordenador en las redes sociales. La observación de la elevada frecuencia con la que se utiliza el lenguaje con una función evaluativa (Santamaría-García 2013 y en prensa, Maíz-Arévalo y García-Gómez, 2013), en muchos casos para la expresión de elogios y cumplidos (Maíz-Arévalo, 2013), ha motivado la elección del estudio de esta función en nuestros trabajos. También resulta de especial interés comprobar la importancia de la evaluación en la construcción de la imagen pública de los usuarios y en la relación social que se establecerá entre ellos (Santamaría-García 2013 y en prensa).
Santamaría García, Carmen and Ventola, Eija (eds.) (2026) A Multimodal Approach to Picturebooks on Migration and Migrants. New York/London: Routledge.
This volume is the first edited collection that offers various theoretical and analytical perspectives on migration narratives in children’s picturebooks. The chapters presented have benefitted from theories such as multimodal social semiotics, systemic-functional multimodal discourse analysis, computer-assisted discourse analysis, multimodal critical discourse analysis, cognitive approaches, and conceptual metaphor.
The book highlights the affordances of a multimodal approach in illuminating how texts and illustrations do joint semiotic work to encourage young readers’ understanding of the difficulties faced by young migrants and thus help young migrants make sense of new languages and settings. The volume foregrounds the importance of critical perspectives in analysing visual narratives of migration in children’s picture books, examining both successful and less successful examples of this joint semiotic work at play and in turn, suggestions for improvements for the future. The book makes the case for multimodal perspectives on migration in children’s picture books toward promoting equality, diversity, and social acceptance of young migrants and the integration of migration issues in early childhood education.
This volume will be of interest to students and scholars in multimodality, discourse analysis, social semiotics, children’s literature, and early childhood education.
Santamaría-García, C. (2025)‘I’m So Angry!’ Anger and Offence Taking in Calls to an Insurance Company in Alba Juez, L. and Haugh, M. (eds.) The Sociopragmatics of Emotion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN 9781009368421
Emotion plays a critical role in every human interaction and permeates all social activity. Displaying, responding to, and talking about emotions is thus central to human language, communication, and social interaction. However, emotions are multidimensional, indeterminate, and inherently situated phenomena, which makes studying them in contextualised settings challenging for researchers. This groundbreaking book illustrates what a sociopragmatic perspective brings to the broader scholarly understanding of emotion and its role in social life, and sets out to lay the necessary foundations for a sociopragmatic theorisation of emotion. It brings together a renowned team of multidisciplinary scholars to demonstrate how evaluation, relationships, and morality are central to any account of emotions in discourse and interaction. It also exemplifies how a sociopragmatic approach to emotions pays more attention to the role that different discourse systems play in how emotions are expressed, interpreted, responded to, and talked about across different languages and cultures.
Chapter Abstract
The chapter explores anger and its connection with offence taking in two telephone calls to an insurance company call centre based in Spain. A sociopragmatic approach has been adopted for the qualitative, interpretive analysis of the phone calls, which explores the indexical, social and moral value of the expression of offence in interaction. My analysis focuses on anger and offence as the expression of emotional responses to the situation being experienced by those customers and aims to contribute to our understanding of the connection between emotion and morality. The two key activities involved in taking offence, namely, registering and sanctioning offence, are linked to both emotion and morality, respectively. Registration of offence with the expression of negative feelings is usually produced in combination with the sanctioning of offence in relation to a moral order. This chapter will hopefully illustrate what a sociopragmatic perspective to the analysis of offence can bring to the understanding of its role in social life.
Keywords: Sociopragmatics, Situated interaction, Anger, Offence, Call-centre.
Santamaría-García, C. (2022) “A semiotic and multimodal analysis of interactive relations in picture books that challenge female gender stereotypes”. In J. Moya-Guijarro y E. Ventola (eds.) A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books, pp. 144-164. London: Routledge.
ISBN 9780367703592
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145875
A semiotic and multimodal analysis of the interactive relations in picture books is presented in this chapter, drawing on social-semiotic approaches (Kress and van Leeuwen 2006, Painter, Martin and Unsworth 2013). The sample includes three picture books that tell stories of female characters who do not conform to traditional gender stereotypes. A qualitative methodology is used in the exploration of meanings of affiliation between readers/viewers and characters, and between characters themselves. Choices in the systems of focalisation, pathos, social distance and attitude (including power and involvement) reveal the importance of visual and verbal resources used by authors and illustrators in the construction of interactive meanings.
Keywords
Multimodal analysis, interpersonal function, affiliation, commitment, coupling.
Quoted by:
De Sarlo, G., Guichot-Muñoz, E., & Hunt-Gómez, C. I. (2022). Sketching Motherhood. Maternal Representation in Contemporary Picturebooks: The Case of Spain. Children's Literature in Education, 1-24.
COLECCIÓN ARCADIA
Sello de Calidad en Edición Académica CEA-APQ y mención de internacionalidad por la Unión de Editoriales Universitarias Españolas, bajo el aval de la Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA) y la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT).
Santamaría García, Carmen (2020) “Un análisis semiótico y multimodal de las relaciones de interacción en libros álbum que desafían los estereotipos de género femeninos”. J. Moya Guijarro y C. Cañamares Torrijos (eds.) Libros álbum que desafían los estereotipos de género y el concepto de familia tradicional. Análisis semiótico y multimodal. Colección Arcadia. Cuenca: UCLM.
Clave: CL Páginas: inicial: 45 final: 69
Fecha: 2020.
I.S.B.N.: 978-84-9044-406-1 (Edición impresa)
I.S.B.N.: 978-84-9044-407-8 (Edición electrónica)
D.O.I.: http://doi.org/10.18239/arcadia_2020.31.00
Free to download https://ruidera.uclm.es/xmlui/handle/10578/26604
El presente capítulo muestra un análisis semiótico y multimodal de las relaciones de interacción en dos libros álbum que narran historias de personajes femeninos que no se ajustan a los estereotipos de género tradicionales. La muestra incluye los relatos Arturo y Clementina y Los tutús no son mi estilo, historias que desafían los roles de género tradicionales y combinan información verbal y visual para involucrar a los lectores de manera activa en los relatos. El trabajo se basa, fundamentalmente, en la semiótica social de Kress y van Leeuwen (2006) y Painter et al. (2013), modelos utilizados para analizar los recursos visuales empleados en la creación de relaciones interpersonales entre participantes representados en las historias seleccionadas y entre participantes y lectores.
Palabras clave: análisis semiótico, análisis multimodal, gramática visual, función interpersonal, libro álbum.
Santamaría García, Carmen (2018) Connected Learners: Online and Off-Line Learning With a Focus on Politeness Intercultural Competences. In D. Tafazoli, M. E. Gomez Parra, and C. A. Huertas-Abril (Eds.) Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global. 83-99.
ISBN13: 9781522554639|ISBN10: 1522554637|EISBN13: 9781522554646
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5463-9.ch005
https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/connected-learners/206096
Technology-enhanced language learning (TELL) is moving ahead from the use of technology in language labs to the possibilities offered by technology in setting up new ways of communication and interactivity. The effectiveness of teaching seems to depend more on teachers' ability to motivate students by connecting to their interests and catering for different intelligences. Teachers' creativity and empathy with them will constitute essential skills for the design of tasks and projects that connect with digital native students' interests. Consideration of cultural aspects will be of essential importance in our globalized world, as learning a language must always take into account cultural variables. The objective of this chapter is to review the challenges that technology and interculturality pose to foreign language teachers and note some of the possible solutions that may facilitate efficient teaching. Politeness theory will be discussed as a theoretical framework providing resources for building social identity and doing relational work with different cultures.
Quoted by:
Codreanu, T., & Combe, C. (2019). Vlogs, Video Publishing, and Informal Language Learning. The Handbook of Informal Language Learning, 153-168.
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Santamaría-García, Carmen (2016) “Connected Parents: Combining Online and Off-Line Parenthood in Vlogs and Blogs”. In Romero-Trillo (Ed.) Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2016. Global Implications for Society and Education in the Networked Age. Volume Number: 4. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 27-50.
ISBN: 978-3-319-41732-5
Chapter DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41733-2_3
This article explores evaluative discourse in a corpus sample of parents’ vlogs (video blogs) and blogs (henceforth v/ blogs) dealing with family tasks and responsibilities, as a reflection of underlying values concerning parenthood. It pays special attention to the important role played by the expression of attitude, understood as “ways of feeling” and including the meanings of affect, judgement and appreciation, together with positive politeness in the social practices of the discursive construction of online and off-line parenthood. Analysis and description of the data show two main patterns in parents’ practices, either aiming at perfection through juggling and multi-tasking or building resistance to the demands of families and society. Results show that parents frequently exploit the system of affect for building positive face and rapport, while indirectly expressing judgement of social esteem and social sanction, which construct their identities as mothers and fathers and those of the members of their communities of practice. The corpus for the study consists of a random sample of 400 evaluative units in posts and comments on v/ blogs dealing with family tasks and responsibilities (200 in English and 200 in Spanish, with half the sample being drawn from fathers’ and the other half from mothers’ v/ blogs). I will approach the analysis of the data from appraisal (Martin and White 2005, Bednarek 2008) and politeness theory (Brown and Levinson 1987) in order to explore the features of evaluative discourse and the management of face. The methodology for processing the data borrows quantitative techniques from Corpus Linguistics, including the coding and statistical treatment of the sample with UAM Corpus Tools (O’Donnell 2011), together with Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis (DA), as done in some previous research (Santamaría-García 2011, 2014).
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This book presents some of the latest developments in the study of this phenomenon. Released more than a decade later than Hunston and Thompson’s (2000) Evaluation in Text, Evaluation in Context is designed as its sequel, in an attempt to continue, update and extend the different avenues of research opened by the earlier work. Both theoretical and empirical studies on the topic are presented, with the intention of scrutinizing as many of its dimensions as possible, by not only looking at evaluative texts, but also considering the aspects of the discursive context that affect the final evaluative meaning at both the production and reception stages of the evaluative act.
The editors’ main objective has been to gather contributions which investigate the manifold faces and phases of evaluation by presenting a wide variety of perspectives that include different linguistic theories (e.g. Axiological Semantics, Functionalism or Politeness Theory), different levels of linguistic description (e.g. phonological, lexical or semantic), and different text types and contexts (e.g. the evaluation found in ironic discourse, the multimodality of media discourse or the world of politics, just to name a few).
The volume can be of use not only for scholars who study the evaluative function of language, but also for students who wish to pursue research in the area.
Santamaría-García, Carmen (2014) "Evaluative discourse and politeness in university students' communication through social networking sites". In Geoff Thompson, & Laura Alba-Juez (eds.) Evaluation in Context. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 387-411.
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This article explores evaluative discourse on social networking sites (henceforth SNSs), paying special attention to the important role played by the expression of attitude and positive politeness in the management of interpersonal rapport. The specific contextual features of SNSs seem to trigger the production of attitudinal meanings of affect, judgement and appreciation, which are exploited for the relational work involved in the construction and maintenance of positive face. The corpus for the study consists of a random sample of 100 messages with 248 evaluative utterances exchanged among university students in the United Kingdom and the United States on a particular site, i.e., Facebook, during the two-year period 2010-2012. Analysis of evaluative discourse is approached from the theories of appraisal (Martin and White 2005, Bednarek 2008) and politeness (Brown and Levinson 1987). The methodology for processing the data borrows quantitative techniques from Corpus Linguistics (CL), involving the coding and statistical treatment of the sample with UAM Corpus Tool (O’Donnell 2011).
Key words: internet-mediated interaction, politeness, appraisal, evaluation.
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Santamaría-García, Carmen (2014) “The construction of adolescents’ peer identity through hyperbole on social networking sites”. A. Sánchez Macarro and A. B. Cabrejas Peñuelas, (eds.) New Insights into Gendered Discursive Practices: Language, Gender and Identity Construction. 159- 174. Valencia: Universidad de Valencia.
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This chapter explores the use of hyperbole by adolescents on social networking sites (henceforth SNSs) with special consideration to the important role it plays in the expression of evaluation for the construction of identity and relationships in this internet-mediated genre. Hyperbole, traditionally studied in rhetoric and literary contexts, has been more recently studied in the context of exaggerated assertions for interpersonal meaning in conversation. I will focus on its use for the expression of attitude (affect, judgement and appreciation) following appraisal theory in combination with politeness theory, in an attempt to discover the interactive meanings of hyperbole favored by users when building personal relationships on SNSs. The corpus for the study consists of a random sample of 100 messages exchanged among university students in the United Kingdom and the United States on a particular site, i.e., Facebook, during the two-year period 2010-2012. The methodology for processing the data combines Corpus Linguistics (CL), Conversation Analysis (CA) and Discourse Analysis (DA). The results show a high frequency of hyperbole in the expression of evaluation on SNSs. Some of the instances analysed suggest a process of conventionalisation of hyperbole, which no longer seems to retain its metaphorical force. On the other hand, some users are highly creative with hyperbole and their use seems to play an important role in attracting the addressees’ interest and their involvement both with the messages and their sender, contributing to their positive faces.
Social networking sites, internet-mediated interaction, pragmatics, politeness, appraisal, evaluation, hyperbole.
Santamaría-García, Carmen (2013) “A compelling need to evaluate: social networks as tools for the expression of affect, judgement and appreciation”. En I. Kecskes and J. Romero-Trillo (eds.). Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 459-478.
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This chapter explores discourse on social networking sites (henceforth SNSs) and the important role played by the expression of evaluation in this genre. I will approach analysis of the data from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), (Halliday, 2004 [1994, 1985]), applying appraisal theory to the study of evaluation (Hunston and Thompson 2000, Martin 2000, Martin and White 2005). Evaluation will be used here as "the broad cover term for the expression of the speaker or writer's attitude or stance towards, viewpoint on, or feelings about the entities or propositions that he or she is talking about" (Thompson and Hunston 2000: 5). The concept of face (Brown and Levinson 2006 [1987/1978], Goffman 1967 [1955], 1969) will be invoked in an attempt to contribute to a better understanding of relational work on SNSs. Description will be limited to the personal use of Facebook (FB) among friends in an attempt to identify the features of the site that seem responsible for the frequent expression of evaluation. The corpus for the study consists of a random sample of 400 messages exchanged by friends in the United Kingdom and the United States. The methodology for their analysis borrows techniques from Corpus Linguistics (CL) concerning the mark-up of data with categories that enable their automatic retrieval (as illustrated in Santamaría-García 2005, 2011). The results of this study show that SNSs seem to stimulate the expression of evaluation, thus contributing to relational work through the negotiation of individuals’ faces. I illustrate how evaluation is used for relational work with the analysis of several extracts from the corpus.
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Perez Samaniego, Victor and Santamaría García, Carmen (2013) “Education for gender equity in Spain: A sociocultural and historical analysis”. In O. Holz and F. Shelton (Eds.) Education and Gender: Gender specific education in different countries. Historical aspects. 75-84. Current Trends. Münster/ New York/ München/ Berlin: Waxmann
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Pérez Samaniego, Víctor und Santamaría García, Carmen (2013) “Erziehung zur Gleichberechtigung in Spanien: Eine soziokulturelle und historische Analyse”.
Holz, O. und F. Shelton. (eds.) Education and Gender: Gendergerechte Bildung und Erziehung in ausgewählten Ländern. Historische Aspekte-aktuelle Trends.
Münster/ New York/ München/ Berlin: Waxmann.
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Santamaría-García, Carmen. 2022. "Freytag, Vera: Exploring Politeness in Business Emails. A Mixed-Methods Analysis " Journal of Politeness Research, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 457-461. https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2021-0011
Santamaría-García, Carmen (2016) “Gil-Salom, L., & Soler-Monreal, C. (Eds.). (2014). Dialogicity in written specialised genres”. RESLA, Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 647–654.
ISSN 0213-2028 | E-ISSN 2254-6774
DOI 10.1075/resla.27.1.05
Santamaría-García, Carmen (2011). "Review on Pütz, Martin and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer. 2008. Developing Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Studies on Language Acquisition). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Journal of Intercultural Pragmatics 8 (1) 147-171. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
ISSN (Online) 1613-365X, ISSN (Print) 1612-295X,
DOI: 10.1515/IPRG.2011.006, /March/2011.
Date for online publication: 24/02/2011.
Impact factor: Q1, SJR 0.715
Santamaría García, Carmen (2000) "How to Benefit from Concordancing within Task Based Learning" ELT: A Space Odyssey. T. Harris e I. Sanz Sainz (eds.). 223-237. Granada: GRETA
ISBN 84-931056-1-9
Santamaría García, Carmen (2000) "Teasing and Shaming Routines in Adult-Children Interaction" Navarro, P. et al. (eds.) Transcultural Communication: Pragmalinguistic Aspects. 235-242. Zaragoza: Anubar Ediciones. ISBN 84-7013-271-7
Santamaría García, Carmen (2002) “Politeness Strategies in the Negotiation of Agreement in English Conversation”. Grmelová, A. and M. Farrell (eds.) Prague Conference on Linguistics and Literary Studies. 76-84.
ISBN 80-7290-104-4.
Santamaría García, Carmen (2004) “Negotiating Agreement in Casual Conversation” Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación. Carretero et al. (eds.) 163-174. Madrid: Universidad Complutense. ISBN 84-608-0186-1
Manuel Megías and Carmen Santamaría. (2004) “Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Competences”. TEFL in Primary Education. D. Madrid & N. McLaren (eds.)
315-341.Granada: Universidad de Granada. ISBN: 84-338-3202-6
Santamaría García, Carmen (2005) La Negociación de Acuerdo en la Conversación Coloquial. Estudio Contrastivo Español-Inglés. CDROM. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. ISBN 84-669-2692-5
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Santamaría García, Carmen (2006) "Preference Structure in Agreeing and Disagreeing Responses". Corpus Linguistics. Hornero, A. M., M. J. Luzón & S. Murillo (eds.) Vol.: 25. Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication. 113-123. Berna: Peter Lang. ISBN 3-03910-675-9
Santamaría García, Carmen (2005) “European Identity in Talk. The case of a Group of Spanish University students” Das Fremde und das Eigene. Renate Seebauer (ed.) Interkulturelle Pädagogik 3. 99-106
Viena: Lit Verlag. ISBN 3-8258-8524-0
Santamaría García, Carmen (2006) “Strategies in the Negotiation of Agreement in English Conversation”. Mosaik Europa. Diskussionsbeiträge zur ethnischen und sprachlichen Vielfalt. Renate Seebauer (ed.) Interkulturelle Pädagogik 5. 137-145. Vienna: Lit Verlag. ISBN 3-8258-9709-5 (Germany) ISBN 3-7000-0524-5 (Austria).
Perez Samaniego, Victor and Santamaría García, Carmen (2008) “Education, Curriculum and Masculinity in Spain”. In O. Holz (Ed.) Pedagogic approaches to learning and teaching with boys- A European Perspective. (87- 97). Münster/ New York/ München/ Berlin: Waxmann
ISBN: 978-3-8309-1891-2
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(2008) “Erziehung, Lehrplan und Maskulinität in Spanien”. In O. Holz (Ed.) Jungendpädagogik und Jungen-arbeit in Europa. (95-106). Münster/ New York/ München/ Berlin: Waxmann
ISBN 978-3-8309-1942-1
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Pérez Samaniego, Víctor; Santamaría-García, Carmen (2009) ”Gesundheit – Was ist Gensundheit? Gesundheitskonzepte für Kinder ” Unterrichtsmaterialien zur Bewältigung jungenspezifischer Herausforderungen in der Grundschule. In Holz, Oliver; Drägestein, Bernd (eds.) 50-59. Bruselas: Königlichen Bibliothek. ISBN 9789081430708
Iborra-Cuéllar, Alejandro; Santamaría-García, Carmen (2009) ”Konfliktgespräche.” Unterrichtsmaterialien zur Bewältigung jungenspezifischer Herausforderungen in der Grundschule. In Holz, Oliver; Drägestein, Bernd (eds.) 154-160. Bruselas: Königlichen Bibliothek.
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Santamaría-García, Carmen (2009) ”Urlaubentscheidungen –Geschlechteridentität in der Interaktion” Unterrichtsmaterialien zur Bewältigung jungenspezifischer Herausforderungen in der Grundschule. In Holz, Oliver; Drägestein, Bernd (eds.) 139-145. Bruselas: Königlichen Bibliothek.
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Santamaría García, Carmen (2016) “Emotions and Classroom Management”. In M. F. Litzler, J. García Laborda and C. Tejedor Martínez (Eds.) Beyond the universe of Languages for Specific Purposes. Alcalá: University of Alcalá. 27-33
Santamaría García, Carmen (2006) “A Corpus-based Study of Agreement Negotiation in Casual Conversation in English and Spanish”. In M. Carretero (et al.) (Eds.) A Pleasure of Life in Words. A Festschrift for Angela Downing.773- 794. Madrid: Universidad Complutense. ISBN: 84-611-3485-0
Santamaría García, Carmen (2009) "Face in the negotiation of agreement in English conversation". In Amengual, Marian, Maria Juan and Joana Salazar (eds.) New perspectives on English Studies. 416-424. Palma (Islas Baleares) Universidad de las Islas Baleares.
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Santamaría García, Carmen (2014) "Evaluative, Self-Discursive Construction of Gender Limitations by Women". M. Jarecka-Zyluk and O. Holz (eds.) Gender and Education from Different Angles. Zürich, Berlin: Lit Verlag. 223-235. ISBN 978-3-643-90519-2