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  2. Social status - Wikipedia

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    With respect to gender, experimental tests repeatedly found that women are highly deferential only in the presence of men. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Although for disadvantaged groups, status disadvantage is not completely negated by valued characteristics, their social status does not depend predominantly on any one group membership.

  3. Context (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Context is "a frame that surrounds the event and provides resources for its appropriate interpretation". [1]: 2–3 It is thus a relative concept, only definable with respect to some focal event within a frame, not independently of that frame.

  4. Pragmatics - Wikipedia

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    Honorifics are another common form of deference index and demonstrate the speaker's respect or esteem for the addressee via special forms of address and/or self-humbling first-person pronouns. An Affinal taboo index is an example of avoidance speech that produces and reinforces sociological distance, as seen in the Aboriginal Dyirbal language ...

  5. Respect - Wikipedia

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    Respect, also called esteem, is a positive feeling or deferential action shown towards someone or something considered important or held in high esteem or regard. It conveys a sense of admiration for good or valuable qualities.

  6. Wikipedia:Civility - Wikipedia

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    Civility is part of Wikipedia's code of conduct and one of its five pillars.Stated simply, editors should always treat each other with consideration and respect.They should focus on improving the encyclopedia while maintaining a pleasant editing environment by behaving politely, calmly and reasonably, even during heated debates.

  7. Intercultural communication principles - Wikipedia

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    Inter-cultural communication principles guide the process of exchanging meaningful and unambiguous information across cultural boundaries, that preserves mutual respect and minimises antagonism. Intercultural communication can be defined simply by the communication between people from two different cultures. [1]

  8. To be, or not to be - Wikipedia

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    Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes Calamity of so long life: For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time, The Oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, [F: poore] The pangs of despised Love, the law’s delay, [F: dispriz’d] The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,

  9. Mildly context-sensitive grammar formalism - Wikipedia

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    Linear context-free rewriting systems/multiple context-free grammars form a two-dimensional hierarchy of generative power with respect to two grammar-specific parameters called fan-out and rank. [22]