Ameni Hlioui is a teacher (Maître Assistante) of English Language and Linguistics at the Higher Institute of Languages of Gabes and a member of the LAD research Unit at the Faculty of Letters and Human sciences of Sfax. She got a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Analysis entitled “A Semantic, Cognitive and Pragmatic Analysis of the Use of Prepositions in Legal Discourse: Life Insurance Contracts and the BlackWater Court Hearings as a Case Study” in 2013. She Obtained her PhD entitled “A Cognitive and Systemic Functional Analysis of the Use of Personal pronouns in Legal Discourse: Life Insurance Contracts and Court hearings as a Case Study” in 2018. She has participated in various national and international conferences and study days and published articles in various international journals. 

Her research interests include Linguistics, Media and Journalism studies, Discourse Analysis, Forensic studies, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics. 

Her publications include:

-   Hlioui, A. (2021). The Good ‘US’ vs. the Evil ‘THEM’ as Fluid Constructs in the “Attack on Titan” Manga. International Journal of Progressive Sciences and Technologies (IJPSAT), 27(2), 579–590. https://doi.org/10.52155/ijpsat.v27.2

-  Hlioui, A. (2020). Generic instability in a frozen legal genre? De Gruyter Mouton International Journal of Legal Discourse, 5(1), 57-82. doi: 10.1515/ijld-2020-2028   

-    Hlioui, A. (2018). A Systemic Functional Analysis of the Use of Personal Reference in the Medrano Burglary Court Hearings. In Sellami Baklouti, A. & Fontaine, L. (Eds). Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics. New York, Routledge.