Meaning and Uselessness: How to Think about Derogatory Words

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It's Not What You Said, It's the Way You Said It: Slurs and Conventional Implicatures (2013, background): “But, on Hom’s analysis, in uttering (4), one would express the same claim alluded to by: (7) There will never be a Prime Minister who ought to be subject to higher college admissions standards, and exclusion from advancement to managerial positions, and …., because of being slanty-eyed, and devious,”
How to do things with slurs: Studies in the way of derogatory words (2013, background): “commonly understood to carry derogatory force whereas the latter is not (Hornsby, 2001; Himma, 2002; Hom, 2008).”
COLD: Annotation scheme and evaluation data set for complex offensive language in English (2020, background): “Theoretical approaches to understanding the variable meanings of slur words have developed from content-based analyses (Hornsby, 2001, for example), which struggle to capture the flexibility of slurs with respect to pejorative content, to more pragmatic accounts (Hom, 2008; Bianchi, 2014; McCready…”