Civic monuments were built, and statues andhonorificinscriptions were set up.From theCambridge English Corpus
The consistency of overall deference in discourse depends on the congruence of deference effects marked independently by severalhonorificlexemes.From theCambridge English Corpus
When language users describehonorificusage, they often formulate extended narratives about the uses ofhonorificforms.From theCambridge English Corpus
But 'honorifictitles ' denoting age, which might be derogatory or deferential might be applied to women anywhere between 34 and 80.From theCambridge English Corpus
Once it is abstracted from all these considerations, a lexical register ofhonorificforms is nothing more than a paradigm of words on a page.From theCambridge English Corpus
Consequently, if an utterance contains a singlehonorificitem, its overall deference effects may be locally unclear, or unconstruable.From theCambridge English Corpus
Here he includes epithets, certain attributive adjectives, and honorifics.From theCambridge English Corpus
What does it mean to be "altruistic" in that morallyhonorificsense when one is forced to so act by more powerful individuals?From theCambridge English Corpus
Such motivation shapes the significance ofhonorificusage, imbuing it with more than one type of value.From theCambridge English Corpus
The obvious difference is that, like much truth-conditional meaning, the proper use of honorifics is a matter of formal study in these cultures.From theCambridge English Corpus
They received morehonorificawards and were more likely to participate in special cultural events.From theCambridge English Corpus
The enduring effect of register names is that they fashion culturally authoritative stereotypes about the uses ofhonorificlanguage.From theCambridge English Corpus
The agency of this inert construction appears to be purely fictive as well, a matter ofhonorificspeech merely.From theCambridge English Corpus
In doing so, the linguist has differentiated a lexical register ofhonorificforms.From theCambridge English Corpus
The second type of scenario is introduced as the obverse, "grownup" /"honorificthings" case in line 18.From theCambridge English Corpus
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