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Prestige (beer), a Haitian lager; Citi Prestige, a premium Citibank credit card; Ibanez RG Prestige, a brand of guitars manufactured by Ibanez; Plaxton Prestige, a single-deck bus body built by Plaxton; Prestige Brands, an American manufacturer of personal care and home cleaning products; Prestige group, real estate developer in India
Prestige influences whether a language variety is considered a language or a dialect. In discussing definitions of language, Dell Hymes wrote that "sometimes two communities are said to have the same, or different, languages on the grounds of mutual intelligibility, or lack thereof", but alone, this definition is often insufficient. [26]
A prestige picture is a film produced to bolster the film studio's perceived artistic integrity, rather than to turn a large profit; [1] ...
Occupational prestige results from the consensual rating of a job - based on the belief of that job's worthiness. The term prestige itself refers to the admiration and respect that a particular occupation holds in a society. Occupational prestige is prestige independent of particular individuals who occupy a job.
Face meaning "prestige" is technically a loan synonym, owing to semantic overlap between the native English meaning "outward semblance; effrontery" and the borrowed Chinese meaning "prestige; dignity". When face acquired its Chinese sense of "prestige; honor", it filled a lexical gap in the English lexicon. Chan and Kwok write,
A prestige dialect is the dialect that is considered most prestigious by the members of that speech community. In nearly all cases, the prestige dialect is also the ...
The reputation or prestige of a social entity (a person, a social group, an organization, or a place) is an opinion about that entity – typically developed as a result of social evaluation on a set of criteria, such as behavior or performance. [1] Reputation is a ubiquitous, spontaneous, and highly efficient mechanism of social control. [2]
Prestige is linked to positive traits such as authentic pride. [8] Prestige appears to be unique to humans and the development of prestige is linked to the development of larger and more intricate social structures. [6] Prestige based leadership is more stable and long term as it produces mutually beneficial outcomes for followers and the ...