Research: Digitisation and quantitative assessment of figurative speech in James VI and I’s writings
Martina Di Tizio is a PhD student in English Literatures, Language and Translation at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", in co-tutelle with the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She obtained her master's degree in 2023 with a dissertation titled "'Could euer the Body bee counted without the Head?': Metaphors in James VI and I’s parliamentary speeches" as well as holding a B.A. in Languages, Cultures, Literature, Translation (languages: English and German). Her research project is focused on the digitisation of James VI and I's minor parliamentary speeches and building a corpus for a quantitative analysis of his figurative speech. Her research interests focus on pragmatics and stylistics in literary and non-literary texts, political discourse analysis, translation techniques and English as lingua franca.