Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen plays a role.

Journals

The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 21:2 (2020) v, 182 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Rosina Márquez Reiter

[Benjamins Current Topics, 96] 2018. v, 194 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

(Co-)Constructing Interpersonally Sensitive Activities Across Institutional Settings

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Rosina Márquez Reiter

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:4 (2016) v, 186 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

The Diachrony of Negation

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 160] 2014. v, 258 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Corinne Rossari

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:2 (2005) 179 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Semantics
This paper examines the meanings of the French construction je pense (que) (‘I think (that)’, henceforth JP), as well as its uses in social interaction. We propose an account of JP as a micro-construction with two basic elements of coded meaning, either one of which may be pragmatically… read more
Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt 2020 Introduction: The role of pragmatics in cyclic language changeThe Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt (ed.), pp. 165–181 | Introduction
In Section 1 of my introduction to this Special Issue, I define the concept of semantic–pragmatic cycles, a relatively recently discovered phenomenon, drawing a distinction between two sub-types: onomasiological and semasiological cycles. Semantic–pragmatic cycles are contrasted with the more… read more
This paper studies the synchronic uses and diachronic evolution of a small set of so-called “response particles” in French, viz. the contemporary forms oui ‘yes’, si ‘yes’, and non ‘no’, and their historical sources, as well as a by now largely obsolete fourth particle nenni ‘no’. Among current… read more
I investigate patterns of usage of thanking formulae in the closing section of a corpus of 94 telephone calls made by tenants to a UK housing association. The data suggest that unilateral thanking is the norm when calls are institutionally and interactionally unmarked. In contrast, mutual thanking… read more
Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt 2018 Véronique Traverso (2016). Décrire le français parlé en interaction Revue Romane 53:2, pp. 355–357 | Review
Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Rosina Márquez Reiter 2018 IntroductionThe Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Rosina Márquez Reiter (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Article
I investigate patterns of usage of thanking formulae in the closing section of a corpus of 94 telephone calls made by tenants to a UK housing association. The data suggest that unilateral thanking is the norm when calls are institutionally and interactionally unmarked. In contrast, mutual thanking… read more
Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Rosina Márquez Reiter 2016 The (co-) construction of potentially interpersonally sensitive activities across languages and institutional contexts(Co-)Constructing Interpersonally Sensitive Activities Across Institutional Settings, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Rosina Márquez Reiter (eds.), pp. 507–511 | Article
Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt 2014 The grammaticalization of negative indefinites: The case of the temporal/aspectual n-words plus and mais in Medieval FrenchThe Diachrony of Negation, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Jacqueline Visconti (eds.), pp. 185–212 | Article
This chapter traces the diachronic evolution in Medieval French of two temporal/aspectual n-words of adverbial origin, the markers mais (< Lat. MAGIS ‘more, to a greater degree’) and plus (< Lat. PLUS ‘more’), equivalent to English no more/no longer, anymore/any longer, with a view to addressing… read more
Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Jacqueline Visconti 2014 The diachrony of negation: IntroductionThe Diachrony of Negation, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Jacqueline Visconti (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
The adverb enfin (lit.: ‘at last’) is pragmatically highly polyfunctional in contemporary French, and previous studies disagree on its proper semantic representation. The present paper traces enfin’s diachronic development from the earliest French texts, where only the temporal, etymological sense… read more
Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Corinne Rossari 2005 The evolution of pragmatic markers: IntroductionThe Evolution of Pragmatic Markers, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Corinne Rossari (eds.), pp. 177–187 | Article
Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt 2002 From aspectuality to discourse marking: The case of French déjà and encoreParticles, Wouden, Ton van der, Ad Foolen and Piet Van de Craen (eds.), pp. 23–51 | Article
This paper investigates the correlation between the form and function of yes/no interrogatives in spoken French. The standard language possesses three ways of constructing such interrogatives: verb-clitic inversion; prefixation of a declarative sentence with the interrogative particle est-ce que;… read more
Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt 1996 Eh bien: Marker of comparison and contrastContent, Expression and Structure: Studies in Danish functional grammar, Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft and Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen (eds.), pp. 315–342 | Article