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The reception method is a concept established by Oki (2013), which denotes “a general term of the mechanism how speakers put in place counterpart’s utterance in their own utterance. Oki (2013) argued that the regional difference exists in a course of discourse through analyses of discourse data from the reception method perspective. From this point, this paper analyzed the reception method in comparison with other dialect discourses in regions of Iwate, Tokyo, Nara, Hyogo, Okayama and Nagasaki in Japan. This analysis aims to clarify attributes of discourse development of Shitada dialect in Niigata. As a result, it has found that Shitada dialect in Niigata tends to have following attributes. (1) The “receptive type” is low and the “straightforward type” is high. (2) While the overall receptive type shows low proportion, the back channel type, which is in a sub‐category of the receptive type, is similar to other regions except Tokyo,Hyogo and Nagasaki. (3) The ratio of demonstrative and conjunctive/adverbial type is the lowest. The ratio of straightforward response type to a question is the highest. These attributes indicate that speakers of Shitada dialect develop discourses through straightforward response to a question. They also tend to allow straightforward utterance in a course of discourse.