Aoife Beville is a Researcher (aoife.beville@unifg.it) in English Linguistics at the University of Foggia. Her monograph Telling Tales in Shakespeare’s Drama: A Pragma-Stylistic Approach to Lying was published in 2022. Her main research interests include the application of linguistic models, such as pragmatics, stylistics, historical linguistics and multimodality, to analyse a wide range of text types, including Early Modern drama and poetry. Her recent publications focus on the stylistics of persuasion in religious discourse (“Mocking the Devil. Persuasive Irony in C. S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters”, AION Anglistica 27(1), pp. 47-63) and irony as a stylistic device (“A Stylistic Approach to Irony in The Encomion of Lady Pecunia” in Richard Barnfield’s Poetics: Early Modern English Poetry beyond Shakespeare, (eds.) C. Caporicci, F. Ciambella, and C. Ragni. London: Bloomsbury). She is the administrative coordinator of the Argo Research Centre (Interuniversity Research Centre for the Study of Argumentation, Pragmatics and Stylistics), where she also collaborates in directing research projects on ecostylistics, (im)politeness in cinema, and the stylistics of pseudos.
