Research output per year
Research output per year
Professor, PhD, Dr.phil.
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I welcome new research students, independently of what object language(s) you're proposing to work on, provided your topic falls within my areas of expertise.
Please note that I do not supervise PhD-dissertations focusing on foreign language teaching. Nor will I supervise pragmatics/intercultural communication dissertations based exclusively on data from Discourse Completion Tests (whether written or oral).
See below for my research interests and information about current and past students.
Member of the Academia Europaea (elected 2020)
Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (elected 2013)
Professor (University of Manchester): 2007-
Assistant/Associate Professor (University of Copenhagen): 1996-2007
Editor of the Studies in Pragmatics series (Brill)
Member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Pragmatics
Advisory editor for Pragmatics and Society and Revue Romane
Member of the Executive Committee of the International Pragmatics Association
Convenor and lecturer (2024-25):
LELA20291 Pragmatics: Meaning, Context, and Interaction.
Appointments:
Drop-in office hours [S1 teaching weeks only]: Mon 11am-12pm & Thur 12-1pm
For appointments at other times, please email me.
Invited talks
Current Ph.D.-students:
Ke Xinling: Epistemic and Deontic Rights in Institutional Interaction. (Lead supervisor)
Wen Yunjia: Investigating the Comprehension of Conversational Implicatures and Motivation among English as a Second Language Speakers. (Lead supervisor)
Ruggiero, Federica: Per una definizione di ironia intertestuale. Testi e rapporti intersoggettivi ironici 'in absentia'. (Università di Roma La Sapienza, Visiting PhD-student, Lead supervisor 2024-25, S2)
Ren Zhiyao: The expression of motion events in Tibetan. (Co-supervisor)
Boomars, Marijn: Conventional antonyms and language change. (Independent reviewer)
Van den Heede, Margot: Language productivity at work: The productivity of minimizing constructions reinforcing sentential negation in French and Dutch. (Ghent University, Belgium, External member of doctoral guidance committee)
Past PhD students at the University of Manchester:
Cosnahan, Roisin. PhD. The role of pragmatics in the evolution of negation in Northern Italo-Romance. 2022. (Lead supervisor)
Angot, Juliette. PhD. Epistemic and subjective expressions in French: the case of je pense, je crois, and je trouve. 2021. (Lead supervisor)
Donlan, Lisa Marie. PhD. Power, innovation, and language diffusion in an online community of practice. 2020. (Lead supervisor)
Jasim, Mohammed. PhD. Refusals of requests by Iraqi EFL learners at the university level. 2017. (Lead supervisor)
Holden, Cheryl. PhD. Persuasion in business networking encounters. 2016. (Lead supervisor)
Murphy, James. PhD. Apologies in political discourse. 2014. (Lead supervisor)
Russo, Antonia. PhD. L'espressione della sostituzione in italiano: tra variazione nel discorso e mutamento diacronico. (Universita degli Studi di Bergamo, Visiting PhD-student, Lead supervisor, 2023-24, S1)
Ferrari, Luisa. PhD. Coordenação oracional contrastiva: processos de constituição e regularidades de mudança. (Sao Paolo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Brazil, Visiting PhD-student, Lead supervisor, 2022-23)
Zakowski, Samuel. PhD. A functional-pragmatic analysis of the discourse markers gar, oun and de in homilies of Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus and John Chrysostom. [Dept. of Linguistics, Ghent University, Belgium] (Visiting PhD-student, Lead supervisor 2014-15, S1)
Kirkwood, Rachel. PhD. Metaphorical conceptualizations of religious experience, with particular reference to 17th-century Quaker writings. 2022. (Co-supervisor)
Alroqi, Haifa. PhD. The relationship between screen media exposure and early language development. 2019. (Independent Reviewer)
Begley, Mary. PhD. The Middle English lexical field of INSANITY: Semantic change and conceptual metaphor. 2018. (Independent Reviewer)
Chapman, Victoria. PhD. The microvariation exhibited by passives and impersonal constructions in the dialects of Italy. 2017. (Independent reviewer)
Tappenden, Fred. PhD. A Cognitive Linguistics approach to early Christian resurrection discourse. 2012. (Independent reviewer)
Joubert, Aurélie. PhD. A comparative study of the evolution of prestige formation and of speakers' attitudes in Occitan and Catalan. 2010. (Independent reviewer)
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Habilitation, (Dr.phil.) Particles at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface: Synchronic and Diachronic Issues. A Study with Special Reference to the French Phasal Adverbs., University of Copenhagen
Award Date: 1 Apr 2008
Doctor of Philosophy, The Function of Discourse Particles. A Study with Special Reference to Spoken Standard French, University of Copenhagen
Award Date: 1 Sept 1996
Master of Arts, University of Copenhagen
Award Date: 1 Feb 1992
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-review
Hansen, M.-B. M. (PI)
1/09/21 → 31/08/23
Project: Research
Hansen, M.-B. M. (PI)
31/08/17 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
Hansen, M.-B. M. (Recipient), Jun 2020
Prize: Election to learned society
Hansen, M.-B. M. (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Election to learned society
Hansen, M.-B. M. (Examiner)
Activity: Examination › Research
Boye, K. (Keynote speaker) & Hansen, M.-B. M. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Hansen, M.-B. M. (Host)
Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor › Research
Hansen, M.-B. M. (Peer reviewer of publications)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review › Research
Hansen, M.-B. M. (Academic expert member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of grants peer review college › Research