Education

2023-2026 Ph.D. in Linguistics, Cotutelle (Double PhD Degree) University of Hildesheim (Institute of Translation Studies and Specialised Communication) & University Paris 8-Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Sciences du langage - ED Pratiques et théories du sens; TransCrit - Transferts Critiques anglophones)

  • PhD Thesis: Evaluation in spoken popular science discourse – A study of evaluative language in English texts and German translations
  • Specialisation: Corpus Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis & Pragmatics, Translation Studies, Statistical Modelling
  • Supervisors: Prof. Dr Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Prof. Dr Dylan Glynn

2019-2022 M.A. English: Language, Literatures and Cultures Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany

2015-2019 B.A. English Language and Literature International Burch University, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Publications

Book chapters

Imamovic, M. (in press). Humans versus LLMs: Optimising Prompting Strategies for ChatGPT and Gemini in APPRAISAL Annotation of English TED Talks. In M. L. Carrió-Pastor and C. Periñán-Pascual (eds). Discourse Analysis and Language Acquisition in the Artificial Intelligence Era. Peter Lang.

Journal articles

Imamovic, M., Deilen, S., Glynn, D., & Lapshinova-Koltunski, E. (2025). Appraisal in translation: Evaluative expressions in German transcripts of English TED talks. In SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation (to appear in September).

Conference proceedings

Imamovic, M., Deilen, S., Glynn, D., & Lapshinova-Koltunski, E. (2024). Using ChatGPT for Annotation of Attitude within the Appraisal Theory: Lessons Learned. In Proceedings of The 18th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVIII), 112–123, St. Julians, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.law-1.11/ 

Contributions

Conference co-organiser: Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS) Conference (8th edition) 2025, 8-10 September 2025, University of Hildesheim, Germany, www.uni-hildesheim.de/uccts2025

Conference talks

September 2025 – “Echoes of Evaluation: Shifts in Explicit and Implicit Appraisal in Translation of English-German TED Talks”, Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS) (8th edition) 2025, University of Hildesheim, Germany

September 2024 – 7th Translation in Transition 2024, Shota Rustaveli State University, Batumi, Georgia

September 2024 – “Human or LLM annotators? A quantitative evaluation of manual and automatic Appraisal analyses of Attitude in the genre-specific corpus of TED talks”, 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL) 2024, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, https://icl2024poznan.pl/userfiles/file/ICL_2024_Poznan_Accepted_papers.pdf

July 2024 – “Emotivity in popular science talks? An analysis of evaluative language used by speakers to express attitude and emotions in TED talks: Introducing the EmotionalizTED corpus”, 7th Corpora and Discourse International Conference (CADS) 2024, University of Innsbruck, Austria, https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/cads2024/conference-program/boa_cads2024.pdf

May 2024 – Computational Linguistics Colloquium, University of Hildesheim

April 2024 – 41 International Conference of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA), Doing Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching in the Artificial Intelligence Era, Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain

April 2024 – Doctoriales de TransCrit, University of Paris 8

March 2024 – 7. Forschungstagung Fachkommunikation – die wissenschaftliche Sicht, University of Hildesheim

May 2023 – Research Colloquium, University of Hildesheim

Conference posters

March 2024 – The 18th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVIII), EACL, St. Julian’s, Malta