Mariya Hristova, M.A.

Academic Experience
Since 2024: Research Associate, Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1646, Bielefeld University
2020-2021: Student Assistant Computational Linguistics at Leibniz ZAS, Berlin
2019-2021: Student advisor at Humboldt University of Berlin

Education
2018–2022: M.A. in Cognitive Media Linguistics, Technical University of Berlin
2014–2018: B.A. in Scandinavian Studies (major) and Media Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin

Publications
Wine metaphors in advertising: A linguistic corpus analysis. In: Snapshot 2, 2022 (https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/studentjournal/wp-content/uploads/sites/117/2022/07/SNAPSHOT_Summer-Semester-2022.pdf).

Talks
06/2025 Formal linguistic modelling of creative multiword expressions in doctor-patient interactions: the example of durcheinanderer Mensch, Colloquium of CRC1646 Linguistic Creativity in Communication, Bielefeld University.
05/2025: Linguistic creativity as a tool for symptom description in natural doctor-patient-interactions (together with Patricia Linnemann), 9th Young Linguists Meeting in Poznań (YLMP) at Adam-Mickiewicz-University Poznań, Poland.
04/2025: Reconstructing common ground development in doctor-patient conversations with a focus on creative multiword expressions, 9th GAKT Meeting (German Linguistics between Cologne and Tokyo): Creativity and Interpretation, Bielefeld University.
11/2024: Linguistic Strategies of creative multiword expressions: preliminary results (together with Prof. Ralf Vogel and Dr. Anna Kutscher), Meeting of Linguistics CRCs in Germany, University of Cologne.
10/2022: Presentation of master’s thesis: When machines become journalists. A
linguistic investigation into metaphors in algorithmically generated football
match reports. The Friday Primes, Humboldt University of Berlin.
03/2021: Poster Presentation: Personifications of wine in the advertising.
8th MindBrainBody Symposium, Max Planck Institute for Human and Cognitive Brain Sciences.

Teaching
11/2024: Guest lecture: Social Media: Strategies for Instagram
Seminar „Computer- und Internetpraxis“
M.A. Deutsch als Fremdsprache,
Technical University Berlin
11/2023: Guest lecture: Social Media: Strategies for Instagram
Seminar „Computer- und Internetpraxis“
M.A. Deutsch als Fremdsprache,
Technical University Berlin
11/2022: Guest lecture: Social Media Strategies
Seminar „Computer- und Internetpraxis“
Deutsch als Fremd- und Fachsprache (M.A.), Technical University Berlin

Grants and awards
2017-2020: Scholarship holder and intercultural trainer in the project FAMOS Interkulturell at Humboldt University of Berlin