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The promotion of vernacular Chinese during the New Culture Movement (新文化運動 or 五四文化運動) of the 1910s and 1920s in China further hastened the demise of a large body of Chinese honorifics previously preserved in the vocabulary and grammar of Classical Chinese. [2] Although Chinese honorifics have simplified to a large degree ...
Speakers use honorifics to indicate their social relationship with the addressee and/or subject of the conversation, concerning their age, social status, gender, degree of intimacy, and situation. One basic rule of Korean honorifics is 'making oneself lower'; the speaker can use honorific forms and also use humble forms to make themselves lower ...
List of honorifics may refer to: English honorifics; French honorifics; Canadian honorifics; Chinese honorifics; Filipino styles and honorifics; German honorifics; Hokkien honorifics; Honorific nicknames in popular music; Indian honorifics; Indonesian honorifics; Italian honorifics; Japanese honorifics; Javanese language#Registers; Korean ...
Although Korean language has very similar honorifics system to Japanese language, there are differences between Korean and Japanese. For example, in Japan, the degree of intimacy largely reflects the use of honorifics, but in Korean, age and whether the other person is of higher status than oneself is more important than the degree of intimacy.
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Chinese honorifics (1 C, 5 P) J. Japanese honorifics (11 P) Pages in category "Honorifics by language" ... Korean honorifics; Krama Inggil; L. List of Latin ...
Chinese people often address professionals in formal situations by their occupational titles. These titles can either follow the surname (or full name) of the person in reference, or it can stand alone either as a form of address or if the person being referred to is unambiguous without the added surname.
The most common honorifics in modern English are usually placed immediately before a person's name. Honorifics used (both as style and as form of address) include, in the case of a man, "Mr." (irrespective of marital status), and, in the case of a woman, previously either of two depending on marital status: "Miss" if unmarried and "Mrs." if married, widowed, or divorced; more recently, a third ...