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  2. Chinese honorifics - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Category:Honorifics by country - Wikipedia

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    Chinese honorifics (1 C, 5 P) J. Japanese honorifics (11 P) S. Honorifics in Sri Lanka (1 C) U. ... Korean honorifics; R. Forms of address in the Russian Empire; S.

  4. Korean honorifics - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Category:Honorifics by language - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. Chinese titles - Wikipedia

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    The term boshi is used both as an honorific title and a name for the degree. Like in English, holders of a doctorate can have the title added to their names (but at the end instead of before), but use of the undistinguishing xiānshēng or nǚshì (or professional titles such as jiàoshòu) is much more prevalent.

  7. Honorifics (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an honorific (abbreviated HON) 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 FORM, social distance, politeness POL, humility HBL, deference, or respect through the choice of an alternate form such as an affix, clitic, grammatical ...

  8. Honorific - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Korean speech levels - Wikipedia

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    The names of the seven levels are derived from the non-honorific imperative form of the verb hada (하다; "to do") in each level, plus the suffix che , which means "style". Each Korean speech level can be combined with honorific or non-honorific noun and verb forms. Taken together, there are 14 combinations.