Exempel på honorific

• Civic monuments were built, and statues and honorific inscriptions were set up.

• The consistency of overall deference in discourse depends on the congruence of deference effects marked independently by several honorific lexemes.

• When language users describe honorific usage, they often formulate extended narratives about the uses of honorific forms.

• But ' honorific titles ' denoting age, which might be derogatory or deferential might be applied to women anywhere between 34 and 80.

• Once it is abstracted from all these considerations, a lexical register of honorific forms is nothing more than a paradigm of words on a page.

• Consequently, if an utterance contains a single honorific item, its overall deference effects may be locally unclear, or unconstruable.

• Here he includes epithets, certain attributive adjectives, and honorifics.

• What does it mean to be "altruistic" in that morally honorific sense when one is forced to so act by more powerful individuals?

• Such motivation shapes the significance of honorific usage, imbuing it with more than one type of value.

• The obvious difference is that, like much truth-conditional meaning, the proper use of honorifics is a matter of formal study in these cultures.

• They received more honorific awards and were more likely to participate in special cultural events.

• The enduring effect of register names is that they fashion culturally authoritative stereotypes about the uses of honorific language.

• The agency of this inert construction appears to be purely fictive as well, a matter of honorific speech merely.

• In doing so, the linguist has differentiated a lexical register of honorific forms.

• The second type of scenario is introduced as the obverse, "grownup" /"honorific things" case in line 18.