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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Honorific"”.
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Social variation and change in honorific usage among Korean adults in an urban setting
… study examined social variation and change in honorific usage in Korean among 158 subjects in Pusan, Korea. The main goal of the study was to delineate the relative importance of social variables governing the choice of speech levels and kinship terms in personal interaction, and to discover …
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A comparative study of Arabic and Japanese
This thesis introduces and compares honorific systems, number, and gender of Arabic and Japanese. One of the purposes of this thesis is to introduce Japanese and Arabic from the viewpoints of each other. It is true that research has been done about each of them separately, but not much has been …
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Dualism and the Critical Languages of Portraiture
… of dualism's relationship to the traditional honorific aspects of the portrait (the fact that historians are inclined to accept at face value the fact that portraits historically have tended to honour the achievements and social status of the sitter). Indeed, scholars have a propensity to …
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The Sacred Depths of Nature: An Ontology of the Possible in the Philosophy of Peirce and Heidegger
… being. I consider infinite being first as an honorific sheer availability of being (potential or possible being: becoming) and then in terms of how inquiry may reveal nature to be an encompassing infinite that locates and situates finite organisms. It is my thesis that, as it is found in …
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Changing Personal Names and Titles in Written Farsi (1921-1978): A Sociolinguistic Study With Pedagogical Implications
… (4) LN alteration is also systematic; (5) long honorific/tribal Ts will change to short, casual Ts; and (6) processes of simplification and Persianization can be identified occurring at the same time in some Iranian Ns and Ts. The following two propositions are also addressed. Sociolinguistic …
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From republic to principate: change and continuity in Roman coinage
… typological inventory of Roman coinage, such as "honorific" and "anticipatory" issues, as well as a boom in the use of explanatory legends. The fifth chapter explores the dramatic shift in "familial" coin typology from the "ancestral" references in the Republic to portrayal of living members of …
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The Rhetoric of Athenian Public Finance in Demosthenes
… first stage in the eventual re-establishment of honorific language and the ideology of benefaction around this concept. Part 2 examines Demosthenes’ construction of his authority as a financial advisor in the wake of the unprecedented centralisation of financial responsibility in the theoric …
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Non-Argumental Clitics in Spanish and Galician: A Case Study of the Distribution of Solidarity and Ethical Clitics
… allocutive agreement in Basque as well as Honorific markers in Japanese or Korean. The common denominator of these particles and the SolCL is that they are linked to the Deixis Center via binding by an operator.</p>
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Politeness and paradigms of family: A perspective on the development of communicative competence in the Japanese ESL speaker
This thesis examines the issue of linguistic politeness in English with specific reference to Japanese ESL speakers. It develops a theoretical framework that sees shared assumptions concerning the marking of social-power and social-distance differentials as crucial. Developing the notion that …