Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia, University of Trieste, Italy.

Vesna Mikolič is the Head of the Institute for Linguistic Studies and Full Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Slovenian Studies at the University of Primorska (Koper, Slovenia). Her research topics are ethnic studies, intercultural education, intercultural pragmatics, semantics, and discourse analysis, with emphasis on discourse of science, tourism and literature.