Dr. Maj Britt Hansen

Biography

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester, specializing in Pragmatics and English Language. She holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen, where she focused on discourse particles in spoken French. Over her career, she has contributed significantly to the fields of Historical Linguistics and Functional-Cognitive Linguistics. She has acted as an Assistant/Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1996 to 2007 and became a full Professor at Manchester in 2007. Hansen's research interests include semantics, grammaticalization, verbal interaction, and cognitive aspects of linguistics. She has supervised numerous PhD students with research projects on topics ranging from conversational implicatures to structural changes in language. An elected member of Academia Europaea since 2020 and a Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters since 2013, she has extensively published and engaged in academic discourse through invited lectures at international conferences and universities worldwide. Her editorial roles and committee memberships reflect her influence in the field of Pragmatics.

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