review di: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen 2008, Particles at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface: Synchronic and Diachronic Issues. A Study with Special Reference to the French Phasal Adverbs (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Vol. 19, Amsterdam: Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-08-055293-4)

The research work on discourse markers/particles has become a growth industry within linguistics. Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen has contributed, with her first (1998) book, numerous papers, and this last book, to the development of this stimulating field, which has helped to clarify theoretical questions, starting from a detailed analysis of the four phasal French adverbs: 'dejà', 'encore', 'toujours', and 'enfin'. The review discusses both the general theoretical background and the several relevant issues, among which: polifunctionality, diachronic development, speaker’s attitudes and subjectivity, as well as the nature of the interactional exchange, metatextual structure, and cognitive processes.