Gender Stereotypes in TCSOL Dialogue Corpus

With the improvement of people's awareness of gender equality, gender stereotypes in language have become a research hotspot in sociolinguistics. The materials of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL) can reflect a certain social and cultural background, especially the gender stereotypes and differences in culture. This paper constructs the TCSOL dialogue corpus. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, this paper tests whether there are significant differences in the discourse characteristics of different genders from the perspectives of vocabulary richness, part-of-speech, semantics and sentiment, so as to explore the gender stereotypes in TCSOL materials. It is found that there is no statistically significant difference between dialogue texts from different genders. However, it still reflects a certain occupational gender bias and gender stereotypes in personality characteristics.