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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 ...
For example, in Gujarati, for an uncle who is your mother's brother, the replacement honorific maama (long "a" then short "a") is used, and a male friend will often earn the suffix honorific of bhai. Suffix type: The traditional Hindi honorific is the suffix -ji. For example, M.K. Gandhi (the Mahatma) was often referred to as Gandhi-ji. (Hindi ...
Japanese is perhaps the most widely known example of a language that encodes politeness at its core. Japanese has two main levels of politeness, one for intimate acquaintances, family, and friends, and one for other groups, and verb morphology reflects these levels. Besides that, some verbs have special hyper-polite suppletive forms. This ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. Feeling of regard for someone or something For other uses, see Respect (disambiguation). "Respectability" redirects here. For the nonprofit organization, see RespectAbility. For the form of discourse, see Respectability politics. The examples and perspective in this article may not ...
A polite notice on the side of a bus that reads "please pay as you enter". Despite the politeness of the phrase, paying is not optional. A sign asking visitors to "Please! Close the gate" at Lincoln National Forest. Please is a word used in the English language to indicate politeness and respect while making a request.
As didactic texts, books of etiquette (the conventional rules of personal behaviour in polite society) usually feature explanatory titles, such as The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness: A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society (1860), by Florence Hartley; [26] Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette ...
A valediction (derivation from Latin vale dicere, "to say farewell"), [1] parting phrase, or complimentary close in American English, [2] is an expression used to say farewell, especially a word or phrase used to end a letter or message, [3] [4] or a speech made at a farewell. [3] Valediction's counterpart is a greeting called a salutation.
For example, the sentence "But you are wrong!", if spelled (in Bulgarian) Но Вие грешите! (the word Вие with capital В ), it would convey that the speaker is addressing an individual person with a plural, because he/she wants to express a polite, official manner; if spelt Но вие грешите!