Chiara Ghezzi

Chiara Ghezzi is a PhD candidate in English Language and Translation at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Her research interests include pragmatics, stylistics, argumentation, literary and historical linguistics in general. Since 2021 she is member of the administrative staff of Argo Research Centre (Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario di Argomentazione, Pragmatica e Stilistica). She is currently working on her PhD research on queenship and power in Shakespeare’s first tetralogy, while her recent work Compliments, insults, and broken taboos in Richard III’s quest for power is soon to be published (Napoli: UniorPress, 2024).