honorific [on-uh-rif-ik] Phonetic (Standard)IPA adjective Alsohonorifical.doing or conferringhonor. conveyinghonor,as a title or a grammatical form used in speaking to or about a superior, elder, etc. noun (in certain languages, as Chinese and Japanese) a class of forms used to show ...
If you have ever traveled to Japan, you may have noticed that the Japanese spoken by store employees is quite different from that which you learned as a beginner. For example: ...いただけませんか? ...よろしいでしょうか? ...になります In fact, honorific speech is only required ...
In Japanese honorifics, the relation between the target of honorification and the predicate has been the focus of intensive research (e.g., Boeckx and Niinuma 2004), while the subject-predicate relation has almost been neglected. Honorific meaning is treated as an instance of conventional ...
Within his class, even his classmates respect him and he is called "Usui-san"; "-san" being a Japanese honorific. WikiMatrix It carries denotations of the charismatic and is comparable to traditional Western honorifics addressing high officials, such as "Your Honour" (for judges), "His/Her...
For the localizations of Persona 3 and 4, the team incorporated as much of the original content as possible, such as using Japanese honorifics and keeping the game's currency as yen rather than changing it. 对于《女神异闻录3》和《女神异闻录4》的本地化,团队尽可能多地使用日本版本的原始内...
47 、He's using honorific Japanese in order to show his own humility and the importance of you visit to our company.───他用日文敬语以表示他的谦逊态度和您光临本公司的重要意义。 48 、The honorific arch is lofty───牌坊高耸 49 、Training of Cultural Consciousness and Teaching of Foreign ...
(2010). Effects of gender-identity and gender-congruence on levels of politeness among young Japanese and Koreans. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 20(1), 23–45. Article Google Scholar Tannen, D. (1994). The relativity of linguistic strategies: Rethinking power and solidarity in ...
developmentoftheJapanesesociety.Thispaperbrieflyintroducesthecausesofgroupconsciousness , itsre flectionsinvariousareasofsociety , anditsdualcharacter , andthenpayscloseattentiontothemostdevel opedhonorificinJapanese , especiallythesituationandthemeaningofusingbusinesshonorificunderthein ...
Though the system of Japanese honorifics may be idiosyncratic, the principle of following some rule of politeness in Japanese honorific usage is considered to be common to that of other languages. Some basic verbs have honorific and corresponding humble forms, which have the same cognitive meaning ...
It has been suggested in the literature that the social-deictic meaning contributed by honorific expressions (in Japanese, Korean, Thai, etc.) belong to a dimension isolated from that of proffered (or at-issue) content. This work demonstrates that, like proffered contents and presuppositions, ...