Abstract
In any language, there are some differences between men and women. In Japanese, most of the studies of women's language have focused on women's vocabulary, KEIGO (honorific expressions), SHU-JOSHI (final particles), sentence ending expressions, etc. In this paper, the focus was placed on ways of connecting two sentences. The results of the survey show that there were significant differences in the use of NONI, GA and KEREDO between men and women: women used NONI twice as often as men whereas in the use of GA, the result was the other way round. These results were significantly different from the use of KEREDO. Considering that KEREDO is related to polite expressions and that NONI has a stronger contrastive or emotional effect, we may say that Japanese women tend to be polite and see things more contrastively or emotionally than Japanese men.
