Abstract
This study indicates how request speech acts are formulated with regard to the face needs of Persian male native speakers. To this end, the respective request speech acts were collected through the administration of a Discourse Completion Test (DCT) which also facilitated the assessment of such contextual variables as social dominance, social distance and imposition of a request. The analysis of the data resulted in the categorization and tabulation of universal and culture-specific request strategies performed by Persian males. The data was also analyzed to reveal the interaction between contextual variables and Persian males' linguistic choice as far as request speech acts are concerned.
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