Alessandro Aru

Alessandro Aru recently completed his PhD in English Linguistics at the University of Pisa. He currently teaches Business English at the Economics Department of the same university. His research interests include Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, and Cognitive Linguistics, focusing on the complexities of figurative language within the theoretical framework of Complex Adaptive Systems. His published works cover topics such as the conceptual structures underlying the understanding of extended metaphor, the interaction between frame shifting and satire, the detection of irony markers in political discourse on Twitter and British newspapers and the application of Conceptual Blending Theory to the analysis of compound figures of speech. Alessandro’s comparative studies also explore the subtle use of ironic language in both Italian and British contexts.