On August 17, 2021 Kerry Sluchinski presented on Digital Othering: A discursive pragmatic approach to Korean third person referential forms in digital Korean Comfort Women discourses. The presentation focused on the usage of third person referential forms in Korean used to call Comfort Women at the International Circle of Korean Linguistics 2021 (ICKL 2021).

The study focused on the two following research questions: 

1. What third person referential forms (i.e. words used to call people/things) are used?
2. How may these forms change in response to political climate?

The presentation illustrated a quantitative shift in news media selection for the corpus source from ILBE to Naver News: 

The presentation illustrated a quantitatively stable preference for terms in both ILBE and Naver News communities:

In addition, the presentation highlighted why solely corpus-based approaches to this type of data are not enough to comprehensively address the issue. That is, a quantitative focus does not capture nuanced workings of language, such as co-reference chains, which can only be captured qualitatively and are needed to examine issues of attitude and identity construction: