İLTİFAT YANITLARININ FARKLI SÖYLEM DURUMLARINA GÖRE TOPLUMSAL CİNSİYETE BAĞLI FARKLILAŞMASI

This study aims at investigating compliment responses of female and male Turkish university students in different situations. The data were collected through a written discourse completion task under four situational settings: appearance, performance, character, possession. 100 undergraduate (50 males 50 females) participated the study. Holmes’s (1988a, 1988b) macro micro categories adapted developed to analyze participants. both groups obtained from compared qualitatively quantitatively. Results indicated that general pattern for participants is Accept, Evade Reject strategies level Appreciation Token Shift Credit level. Some statistically significant differences between females identified. Both levels, how respond compliments vary with respect context they receive compliment. Under specific situations tend reply similarly which help us come up an ethnographic account CRs.