Stefania Biscetti is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at the Department of Human Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Italy. Her research interests are mainly in the fields of pragmatics (and its interface with morphology, lexicon and text/discourse) and cognitive linguistics, from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. She has already contributed to terminological and cognitive linguistic research with a study on the use of Italian and English diminutives in technical terminology and three publications on the conceptualisation of gentlemen and gentlewomen in 17th century England.