Dr Mihaela Popa-Wyatt

Lecturer in Philosophy

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Overview

I am a Lecturer at the Philosophy Department at the University of Manchester. Previously I was a Marie Curie fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS Berlin), an independent research fellow at the University of Birmingham, and a Beatriu de Pinos Fellow at LOGOS Barcelona.

My main research interests are in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, Meta-ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Social Epistemology, Philosophy and Race and Gender. My recent work focuses on how slurs and oppressive speech shift social norms and re-entrench social hierarchies. I’m currently using tools from game-theoretic and social norms theories to make testable predictions about e.g. the spread of oppressive speech use, coalitions formation, and the emergence of discriminatory norms.

Areas of expertise

  • B Philosophy (General) - Philosophy of Language, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Gender and Race

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Publication highlights

A Telegram Corpus for Hate Speech, Offensive Language, and Online Harm

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The Telegram Chronicles of Online Harm

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Compound Figures: A Multi-Channel View of Communication and Psychological Plausibility

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Reclamation: Taking back control of words

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Slurs, Pejoratives, and Hate Speech

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Hyperbolic Figures

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

Mind the Gap: Expressing affect with hyperbole and hyperbolic figures

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Slurs, roles and power

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Embedding irony and the semantics/pragmatics distinction

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Go Figure: understanding figurative talk

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Compound figures: Priority and speech-act structure

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Not all slurs are equal

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Irony and the dogma of force and sense

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Pretence and Echo: Towards an Integrated Account of Verbal Irony

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Ironic metaphor interpretation

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Ironic metaphor: a case for metaphor’s contribution to truth-conditions

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Is semantics really psychologically real?

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