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| has gloss | eng: In linguistics, an honorific (abbreviated ) is a grammatical or morphosyntactic form that encodes the relative social status of the participants of the conversation. Distinct from honorific titles, linguistic honorifics convey formality , social distance, politeness , humility , deference, or respect through the choice of an alternate form such as an affix, clitic, grammatical case, change in person or number, or an entirely different lexical item. A key feature of an honorific system is that one can convey the same message in both honorific and familiar forms—i.e., it is possible to say something like (as in an oft-cited example from Brown and Levinson) "The soup is hot" in a way that confers honor or deference on one of the participants of the conversation. |
| lexicalization | eng: honorifics |
| subclass of | (noun) an expression of respect; "the Japanese use many honorifics" honorific |
| has instance | e/Aleqa |
| has instance | e/Baba (mystic) |
| has instance | e/Basileopator |
| has instance | e/Batoni (title) |
| has instance | c/Byzantine imperial titles |
| has instance | e/Damapati |
| has instance | e/Dom (title) |
| has instance | e/Ecclesiastical Addresses |
| has instance | e/Gyi |
| has instance | e/Herra |
| has instance | e/His Honour |
| has instance | e/Honorary titles of Indian leaders |
| has instance | e/List of Shi'a titles for Fatima Zahra |
| has instance | e/Lordbishop |
| has instance | e/Mamsell |
| has instance | e/Midaidokoro |
| has instance | e/Nahuatl honorifics |
| has instance | e/Royal and noble styles |
| has instance | e/Slavic honorifics |
| has instance | e/Style (manner of address) |
| has instance | e/Sunan (Indonesian title) |
| has instance | e/The Most Noble |
| has instance | e/The Much Honoured |
| has instance | e/The Right Honourable |
| has instance | e/Use of courtesy titles and honorifics in professional writing |
| has instance | e/Worship (style) |
| has instance | e/ja/北政所 |
| has instance | e/ja/呼び捨て |
| has instance | e/ja/大御所 (江戸時代) |
| has instance | e/ja/大御所 |
| has instance | e/ja/大方殿 |
| has instance | e/ja/夫人 |
| has instance | e/ja/宿老 |
| has instance | e/ja/屋形 |
| has instance | e/ja/御所 |
| has instance | e/ja/御簾中 |
| has instance | e/ja/殿 |
| has instance | e/ko/저하 |
| Meaning | |
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| Ido | |
| lexicalization | ido: Estimili |
| Japanese | |
| lexicalization | jpn: 敬称 |
| Portuguese | |
| lexicalization | por: Tratamentos |
| Chinese | |
| lexicalization | zho: 尊称 |
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