Marita Kristiansen

Marita Kristiansen is Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, and head of Termportalen. Her research focuses on terminology development, neology, corpus linguistics, and language planning in Norwegian contexts.

Key research examines climate change discourse in corporate communications, environmental terminology development, and challenges of language internationalization in higher education. She investigates domain loss, parallel language use, and terminological infrastructure through corpus-based approaches.

Publications analyze specialized vocabulary in media, scholarly concept evolution, and digital resources for terminology management. Her work contributes to Norwegian language planning and lexical innovation studies.

Notable projects include research on Termportalen as a national terminology infrastructure and analysis of financialization in climate communication.