Maj‐Britt Mosegaard Hansen
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View article: Experience and usability of a website containing research-based knowledge and tools for pain self-management: a mixed-method study in people with high-impact chronic pain
Experience and usability of a website containing research-based knowledge and tools for pain self-management: a mixed-method study in people with high-impact chronic pain Open
Objectives Smerteinfo.dk is a freely accessible Danish website containing research-based, up-to-date knowledge on chronic pain, written in lay language, with a focus on information, guidance and self-management tools, developed in collabor…
View article: We need to talk about Hearer's Meaning!
We need to talk about Hearer's Meaning! Open
Language Use in Past and Present
View article: In defense of a pragmatic view of reanalysis
In defense of a pragmatic view of reanalysis Open
This paper will defend a view of reanalysis as a key empirical phenomenon in grammatical change (defined broadly as including meaning change), arguing that an interactionist point of view offers independent justification for this assumptio…
View article: Cyclic changes to the negative coordinating conjunction from Latin to Modern French
Cyclic changes to the negative coordinating conjunction from Latin to Modern French Open
The evolution of the negative coordinating conjunction (‘neither’/‘nor’) from Latin to Modern French instantiates a type of cyclic development that is previously undocumented as such at the level of morphosyntax, viz. a ‘semasiological’ cy…
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
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. …
View article: The role of (historical) pragmatics in the use of response particles
The role of (historical) pragmatics in the use of response particles Open
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 la…
View article: The Role of Inferencing in Semantic/ Pragmatic Cyclicity: the Case of Latin nunc and French or/maintenant
The Role of Inferencing in Semantic/ Pragmatic Cyclicity: the Case of Latin nunc and French or/maintenant Open
In this paper, I analyze the evolution of the Latin adverb/discourse marker NUNC and its Old and Modern French equivalents, or and maintenant, markers whose content-level source meanings are in all cases equivalent to English now. The anal…