The realization of request strategies among Turkish-Persian bilinguals considering gender & age

Linguistic politeness is one of the highly regarded issues by sociolinguists and linguists.The phenomenon importance rises due to its culture-specific nature and its effect on social relationship. This study which is descriptive-analytical one, aimed at identifying the extensive used request patterns in Ardebili Turkish in the light of Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory(1987) and Blum-Kulka et al’s coding scheme for request(1989) regarding age and gender. To achieve this goal, the data has been collected by participant observation and Likert scale questionnaire designed by the researcher. The sample research is 245 male and female Persian-Turkish bilinguals within three age ranges, 18-30, 31-40 and +41. In order to examine the statistically significant effect of variables SPSS software(version 21) and non-parametric tests, Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis were used. Findings indicated that in all kinds of request the suggestory formula and query preparatory are the patterns with high frequency and strong hint and weak hint strategies are the low- frequency patterns. The statistically significant difference is revealed among the age ranges but there is no such difference between male and female.