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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=linguistics">linguistics</a>, an <b>honorific</b> (<a href="page.php?w=list_of_glossing_abbreviations">abbreviated</a> ) is a <a href="page.php?w=grammar">grammatical</a> or <a href="page.php?w=morphosyntactic">morphosyntactic</a> form that encodes the relative social status of the participants of the conversation. Distinct from <a href="page.php?w=honorific">honorific titles</a>, linguistic honorifics convey formality , social distance, politeness , humility , deference, or respect through the choice of an alternate form</p><p>
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