국어사전의 직업 차별 표현 기술 분석

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the discriminatory description of occupation names in Korean dictionaries and to think about its causes and solutions. The material of the analysis are Korea University Korean Dictionary and Korean Language Fountain. In Chapter 2, we analyze the names of occupations in health and medical fields such as ‘uisa’ (의사 doctor), ‘ganhosa’ (간호사 nurse), and ‘yaksa’ (약사 pharmacist). In Chapter 3, we analyze the names of professions in the fields of law and accounting such as ‘byeonhosa’ (변호사 lawyer), ‘hoegyesa’ (회계사 accountant), and ‘beommusa’ (법무사 judicial scrivener). In Chapter 4, we consider the causes and solutions of discriminant description of occupation names in Korean dictionaries. According to the data analysis, discriminatory description based on occupations was confirmed in definition and usages of occupation names. The discriminatory description of dictionaries is a result of writers’ insufficient awareness about discrimination or their internalized discrimination. The most important thing to solve the problem is to strengthen the authors’ awareness of the problem of discrimination related with occupations, and to make efforts for the reform of dictionaries in the sociolinguistic viewpoint. With this research, I hope that the Korean dictionaries will develop into perfect and complete texts that delicately consider not only the form and structure but also the social meaning.