Antonio García-Gómez

• PhD
• Professor at University of Alcalá

Whilst there is a growing body of literature on the normalisation of abuse in youth digital sexual image exchange ( Ringrose, Regehr & Whitehead 2021 ), mediated intimacies and sexual harms among men who have sex with men (MSM) in online contexts still remain largely neglected ( Dietzel 2021 ). The present study builds on Russell’s (2021) study on...

The collection of articles in Discourse Studies in Public Communication illustrates that public communication is a fascinating, evidence-based storehouse for research in discourse analysis. The contributions to this volume — in the spheres of political rhetoric, gender and sexuality, and corporate and academic communication — provide good evidence...

By using small focus group discussions, the present study aims to gain insight into students’ perceptions about the impact of WhatsApp use in their learning process. More specifically, this study presents a cross-cultural analysis of British and Spanish university students’ personal beliefs about the effectiveness of using WhatsApp to complete grou...

Although the use of the mobile application communication technology for interpersonal communication seems to be less physically threatening, building successful relationships has become more complex. Using both quantitative and qualitative analyses of the way(s) British and Spanish university students manage a hostile situation when disputing among...

By analysing 200 Tinder profiles of Spanish heterosexual men and 200 Grindr profiles of Spanish queer men, this article examines these men’s online gendered and sexualised self-representation strategies. More specifically, the study develops a discourse and feminist analysis of post-feminist media cultures which contrasts these men’s discursive rep...

This study explores the gendered discourses of youth sexualities. More specifically, it reports on research examining t(w)een girls’ discursive construction and negotiation of their femininities in the context of sexting. Using a qualitative method, the study attempts to contribute to the understanding of the multidimensionality of femininity. In o...

Tanto educadores como psicopedagogos han señalado la necesidad de innovar en el aula en general y en el aula universitaria en concreto. En el caso del aula universitaria, el uso de las nuevas tecnologías y la adopción de nuevos enfoques que permitan atender a la diversidad de grupos numerosos mientras el estudiante se convierte en el motor de su pr...

García-Gómez explores the construction of multiple masculine identities and the different sexual gendered discourses a group of heterosexual British young men live out when they narrate why they and their girlfriends sext. By using personal interviews and guided discussions, this chapter sheds light on the ways these young men negotiate their sexua...

This study investigates family conflict talk in a computer-mediated environment from a language-in-interaction focus. It is based on two different data sets of six WhatsApp groups that feature arguing British families, and of six WhatsApp groups that feature arguing Spanish families. It looks at the different linguistic strategies that participants...

This study investigates family conflict talk in a computer-mediated environment from a language-in-interaction focus. It is based on two different data sets of six WhatsApp groups that feature arguing British families, and of six WhatsApp groups that feature arguing Spanish families. It looks at the different linguistic strategies that participants...

In this article I attempt to contribute to the debates on sexualization, and on tweens' sexual agency and choice by reporting on a qualitative study of how 53 tween girls self-presented in discourse in the context of sexting (sending sexually explicit text messages and pictures to others). More specifically, the study aims to interrogate tweens' se...

This article aims to cast more light on how persuasive practices in business are enacted for an audience on television by comparing two versions of the television programme Dragons’ Den. The main objective is to examine different interactional features of the programme within a cross-cultural analysis. Drawing on data from the Spanish and UK versio...

La existencia de diferentes estilos de aprendizaje es un hecho probado en la bibliografía (Ehrman, 1996; Reid 1996). El presente estudio se propone, por un lado, presentar una breve reflexión sobre la problemática existente en nuestro sistema educativo y, por otro lado, analizar de manera crítica la teoría de las inteligencias múltiples propuesta p...

Discourse analysis has focused extensively on argumentative and manipulative discourse. In particular, this present paper considers the different information-processing constraints at play in comprehending elicitations and responses and their role in the persuasive success of arguments. I use both a quantitative and qualitative method to examine in...

Social networks have been evolving throughout time not just as a tool to socialize or interact, but as a fundamental system that helps people develop their lives. Among social network users, adolescents are, without any doubt, those who are more dependent on technology in general terms and social media in particular. They not only use it to connect...

In this paper I take a conversation analytic approach to examining persuasive strategies for enhancing compliance in talk show interaction. Basing my analysis on the discursive analysis of transcriptions of verbal aggression taken from the former UK TV talk show “Kilroy”, I argue that confl ictual episodes must not be viewed as an expressive act wh...

The electronic swapping of sexually provocative images and texts, commonly known as sexting, seems to have become part and parcel of adolescents’ social lives. In spite of both media and policy attention, questions remain about the way(s) young women navigate sexual relationships and construct their gendered identity discursively by endorsing/chall...

En el aula inversa, se espera que los estudiantes vengan a clase preparados para aprender. En concreto, la primera exposición a los contenidos básicos a los que el estudiante se enfrenta ocurre antes de la clase y, durante la misma, se crean dinámicas donde las ponga en práctica. Esta investigación tiene como objetivo explorar los beneficios de una...

Despite its apparent simplicity, the speech act of complimenting has received a great deal of attention in the literature. However, studies have mostly focused on compliments' realization in face-to-face conversational exchanges, while they have often been neglected in other channels such as online communication. This article is intended to redress...

Since the 1990s, the reality television phenomenon has transformed the face of television in many countries (O’Loughlin, 2004). In Spain, for instance, the private domain has gradually invaded the public domain in an attempt to increase audience ratings and also reflect patterns of asymmetrical societal organization (García-Gómez, 2009). Different...

This chapter examines social networking sites from a sociological and discursive perspective in order to highlight how users engage with them in the construction of their identities. In order to do so it focuses on the different strategies users of Facebook take advantage of in order both to construct their gender identity and control the way they...

Placing the discursive psychological analysis of sexuality at its centre, this article considers a number of overlapping fields of linguistics: women’s language, construction of gender identities and language and sexuality. By encompassing these fields, in spite of potential differences in terms of theoretical stance and foci of analysis, the prese...

At present, cyberspace tends to occupy a growing part of the social realities of most teenagers. The present study suggests that personal weblogs collectively can be said to comprise a social institution which serves to foster and maintain a cult of femininity. In promoting a cult of femininity, these personal weblogs are not merely reflecting the...

Using a blog corpus, the current study of weblog writing explores changing cultural norms surrounding technology-mediated formation of interpersonal relationships and aims to gain insight into important aspects of online female behaviour. More specifically, this article analyses the way in which British and Spanish female adolescents disclose perso...

Since Lakoff’s (1975) early efforts to connect language and gender by studying what women and men do or do not do in conversation, gender studies have moved away from regarding the language of women as a deficient version of men’s language towards constructivist and poststructuralist frameworks.1 Over the past two decades, the understanding of the...

La psicologia discursiva es especialmente relevante en el estudio de la construccion de la identidad femenina en las narrativas de adolescentes en sus diarios personales en red, en tanto en cuanto permite al analista arrojar luz sobre como estas adolescentes no solo «producen discurso» sino que ademas son producto del discurso. El presente trabajo...

Although social scientists, journalists, and tv presenters have made great efforts to justify the relevance and importance of audience discussion programmes, these programmes have been commonly labelled as “trash television”. Among the most frequent criticisms in the literature are the accusations that these programmes turn serious matters into sen...

This paper presents an analysis of the construction of female gender identity in British and Spanish personal weblog writing. More precisely, this study offers an insight into the way white female adolescents conceptualize gender roles in twenty-first century society, especially in terms of self-expression. Inspection of this British and Spanish bl...

A pesar del esfuerzo de científicos sociales, periodistas y los propios presentadores de los programas por defender y dar importancia a los audience discussion programmes, estos programas han sido tildados como “telebasura”. En la bibliografía, la acusación vertida contra estos programas es el hecho de crear espectáculo de la información y dar rien...

En los últimos años nuestro sistema educativo ha sufrido dos reformas significativas que comparten la necesidad imperiosa de mejorar la calidad de la enseñanza en general y los resultados académicos de nuestros alumnos y alumnas en el área de lengua extranjera en particular. El presente estudio nace de la falta de concreción del que adolecen el pla...

Gracias a los avances significativos que el uso de las nuevas tecnologías ha tenido en nuestra sociedad en las últimas décadas, hoy día contamos con una amplia bibliografia que demuestra los beneficios de su utilización en el aula de inglés. En esta línea, nuestro estudio se nutre principalmente de los principios del enfoque comunicativo y de los f...

The present study was conducted to engage undergraduate students training to be Primary School Teachers in the personal study of gender differences. More precisely the project aims, on the one hand, at getting undergraduates to openly explore the understanding of gender in the practice of teaching Primary school students and, on the other, at raisi...

Las últimas décadas han visto el auge de los modelos de enseña bilingüe en muchos países europeos como una forma de mejorar el conocimiento de uno o más idiomas extranjeros. En España estos modelos son relativamente recientes y no ha sido hasta hace poco que comunidades autónomas tales como la Comunidad de Madrid han puesto en marcha ambiciosos pro...

The present paper aims to reflect on some key analytic elements for studying Conflict talk and how it gets structured by interactants. Although this type of talk may look chaotic, when closely examined it is, in fact, highly ordered. Using samples taken from two popular British and Spanish Talkshows, the analysis will provide the opportunity of con...