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초록

This study analyzed gender representation types in example sentences containing gendered personal nouns in the Korean Basic Dictionary for language learners. From the largest Korean language learner's dictionary - the Korean Basic Dictionary, 1,907 example sentences reflecting gender misappropriations were extracted and analyzed, focusing on four Korean gendered personal nouns - YEOSEONG and YEOJA corresponding to "woman" and NAMSEONG and NAMJA to "man." Based on critical discourse analysis, which assumes the interaction between discourse and ideology, the co-occurrence of gendered personal nouns was observed, and gender representation types were further categorized into representation of gender-stereotypical ideology, departure from gender-stereotypical ideology, and post-departure situation from gender-stereotypical ideology. Gender- stereotypical ideology was represented in 77% of target examples including YEOSEONG and YEOJA and 92% including NAMSEONG and NAMJA. Additionally, the findings revealed that gender roles were depicted in a biased manner: "woman" and "man" were often portrayed as non-agent and agent or as victim and perpetrator, respectively. Even with nouns referring to the same gender, differences in word choice resulted in varying ratios of gender representation and an imbalanced distribution of example sentences across the two genders. Language learners naturally absorb the ideology of society through a dictionary that reflects the social landscape of a linguistic community. Therefore, this study proposes editorial guidelines based on the research findings that dictionary editors should consider to ensure up-to-date and unbiased gender representation.

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