Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova is Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. She specialises in discourse analysis, stylistics and pragmatics, focusing on academic and political discourse. Her most recent co-authored book is Persuasion in Specialised Discourses. She is co-editor-in-chief of Discourse and Interaction.
Renata Povolná is Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Her research interests include discourse analysis and pragmatics, focusing on academic, technical and media discourse. She most recently co-authored the book Persuasion in Specialised Discourses. She is co-editor of Discourse and Interaction.