摘要:Politeness is culture-specific and context sensitive. Usually, speakersof a language community acquire strategies of politeness from theirongoing discussions with each other in daily life. That is why what ispolite in a community can be considered rude in another and what ispolite in a particular context could be rude in another. This articleoffers a particularly pragmatic study on the politeness of the speechacts of query. This study examines the politeness of the requeststrategies carried out by French native speakers. Participated by 10 native speakers as referees, itexamines the politeness according to the encoding scheme developed in Cross-Cultural Speech ActRealization Project (CCSARP) (Blum-Kulka, House, & Kasper, 1989) modified by Warga (2005). UsingDiscourse Completion Test (DCT) for data collection, this research, at the same time, focuses on theinternal change of request adapted by Jin Ah (2012). It consists of 6 situations selected conversations ofReiter (2000). Social variables corresponding to 3 systems of politeness of Scollon and Scollon (2001)also became the basis of the analysis in this study. The results of our research have shown that Frenchnative speakers tend to make their request for conventional indirect strategy by the use of theinterrogative sentence. The sub-strategy which was used is question on a condition of success dominatedby the question on the ability. While most of the internal changes to show politeness is the use of theconditional mode. These findings could have implications for the learners of French as foreign language,teachers, authors of textbooks, syllabus designers and researchers.