Gender-Based Use of Concession: Insights from Turkish Spoken Discourse

Concessive relations have been defined in terms of concepts such as surprise, counter-expectation, incompatibility or conflict between clauses literature. Concession can be marked explicitly by a range linguistic resources expressed implicitly and perceived the hearer based on contextual cues. In previous studies, various functions concession including expressing contrast, preventing potential misunderstandings, correction/repair, alignment topic management reported. Traditional view gender language allege that women tend to seek common ground, avoid disagreement polite. The current view, other hand, claim discourse context is determinant tendencies. Considering discursive concession, it thus presumed opt for more frequently than man do. Therefore, aim this study twofold: determine (if any) gender-based differences (i) marking use concessive (ii) Turkish spoken within framework Interactional Linguistics. database consists transcriptions six-hour daily conversations. Findings revealed mostly (83.5%) with no significant difference genders most commonly used marker ama (but) both (33.7%). As functions, concessions are express contrast (49.4%) male female speakers. These findings support not speakers but shapes use.