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Being successful in intercultural communication relies strongly on understanding of communicative purposes of interlocutors and pragmatic meaning of their utterances. Established on numerous cross-cultural studies, politeness is a culture-specific phenomenon despite its universal nature and understanding of politeness as well as norms of politeness vary across different cultures (Blum-Kulka 1989 &1992, Hickey & Stewart 2005, Larina 2008 & 2015, Locher & Larina 2019, Mugford 2020, Pizziconi 2003, Sifianou 1992, Watts 2003, Watts & Ide & Ehlich 2005]. The aim of the present study is focusing on the speech act of response to request which is regularly taken place in everyday interactions and analyzing the norms and strategies of politeness in British and Persian contexts as well as explaining them through cultural differences. The material for the study was collected from a discourse completion test (DCT) responded by 112 British and Persian objects with our ethnographic observations. The analysis was performed with drawing on (im)politeness theory, speech act theory, cross-cultural pragmatic and discourse analysis, research on identity construction and the effect of politeness on communicative styles. The findings demonstrate that in British culture, the communicative styles in asymmetrical top-down (parents to children) and bottom-up (children to parents) contexts are egalitarian and children respond to requests of their parents and parents respond to requests of their children equally. This fact confirms a low power distance in British culture. By contrast, in Persian society, the communicative styles explicate a number of significant distinctions in top-down (parents to children) and bottom-up (children to parents) contexts which is due to an extensive index of power distance in Persian society. The paper reveals that the knowledge of cultural norms and communicative differences in various contexts is crucial for the second language acquisition and development of pragmatic competence of second language learners. Indeed, it is essential for understanding and successful intercultural communication.

POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN RESPONSE TO REQUEST IN BRITISH AND PERSIAN FAMILY DISCOURSE