抄録
This study analyzes gender-specific portrayal in dialogue taken from Japanese Language textbooks published in Japan, China and the United States, focusing on the use of sentence final particles (SFPs) and differences in politeness between male and female dialogue. For each textbook, we show that correlations between the frequencies of SFPs used in male and female dialogue align with differences in gender. Next, classifying politeness into three levels, we calculate the frequency of polite language use according to gender. These results make clear the differences in gender-specific portrayal in Japanese Language textbooks by country.
