[1][3] On completion of her PhD she took up an assistant professorship at the same university, and was promoted to associate professor in 2000.
In 2007 she moved to the University of Manchester to take up her current position as Professor of French Language and Linguistics.
She was elected Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2013, and Member of the Academia Europaea in 2020.
[1][2][4] Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen's research falls within the broad areas of semantics and pragmatics, from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective, with the French language as primary empirical domain.
Research areas include verbal interaction, functional and cognitive linguistics, differences between spoken and written French, and Peircean semiotics.