Prof  Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen - Further information

Office hours: 

Tuesday/Thursday 12-1pm (teaching weeks only)

Research students

I have supervised a number of MA and Ph.D. students, on a range of topics within semantics and pragmatics, functional/cognitive linguistics, language change, contrastive linguistics, and discourse analysis/communication/rhetoric.

I welcome students interested in working on topics that fall within my areas of expertise.

Current Ph.D.-students:

James Murphy: Apologies in political discourse. (Lead supervisor: 2011-)

Cheryl Holden:  Persuasion in Anglo-French business encounters.  (Lead supervisor: 2012-)

Christos Makropoulos:  Lexical and semantic change in Ancient and Medieval Greek vocabulary of cultural and religious significance. (Research panel member 2010-) 

Administration

• PGT Program Director, LEL

Service

• Member of the Consultation Board of the International Pragmatics Association (2012-2017)
• External examiner in French Studies at the Danish Universities (2002-)
• External examiner for the MRes in Linguistics, University of Brighton (2011-)

Some recent and future events organized

• (- with Rosina Marquez Reiter) Panel on "(Co-)constructing interpersonally sensitive activities across institutional settings" at the 13th International Pragmatics Conference, Delhi, September 2013
• (- with Alain Berrendonner & Rodica Zafiu)  Section on "Linguistique textuelle et analyse du discours" at XXVIIe Congres de linguistique et de philologie romanes, Nancy, July 2013
• (- with Jacqueline Visconti)  Workshop on "The Diachrony of Negation" at the XXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, July 2011
• 12th International Pragmatics Conference, July 2011 (Chair of local site committee)
• (- with Emilio Ridruejo and Maria-Josep Cuenca) Section on "La pragmatique des langues romanes" at the 26 Congres Internacional de Linguistica i Filologia Romaniques, Valencia, September 2010