Research output per year
Research output per year
Professor, PhD, Dr.phil.
Accepting PhD 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 of Langue française
Advisory editor for Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics and Society and Revue Romane
Member of the Consultation Board for the International Pragmatics Association
PI on AHRC-funded research network on The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change (2021-23)
Drop-in office hours: Tues 12-1pm, Weds 11am-12pm [teaching weeks only]
For appointments at other times, please email me.
Invited talks
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 methods of foreign language teaching. Nor will I supervise pragmatics/intercultural communication dissertations based exclusively on data from Discourse Completion Tests (whether written or oral).
Current Ph.D.-students:
Ferrari, Luisa: The role of inferencing in the diachronic development of new contrast markers. (Sao Paolo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Brazil, Visiting PhD-student, Lead supervisor, 2022-23)
Van der 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)
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)
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 Sep 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 › Special issue › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard (Recipient), Jun 2020
Prize: Election to learned society
Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Election to learned society
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Peer reviewer of publications)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review