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Honorific Habit

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Honorific habit refers to the linguistic and social practices involving the use of honorifics—expressions that convey respect, politeness, or formality—within a specific cultural or social context. This phenomenon examines how language reflects social hierarchies and relationships, influencing communication styles and interpersonal dynamics.
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Honorific habit refers to the linguistic and social practices involving the use of honorifics—expressions that convey respect, politeness, or formality—within a specific cultural or social context. This phenomenon examines how language reflects social hierarchies and relationships, influencing communication styles and interpersonal dynamics.

Key research themes

1. How does the interplay of linguistic conventionalization and sociocultural context shape honorific usage and meaning?

This theme investigates the conventionalization process as a core mechanism that links expressions, contexts, and speaker intentions in honorific usage, emphasizing the conditioned variability of politeness and honorific forms beyond indirectness. It highlights that honorific expressions are not universally fixed but are deeply embedded in sociocultural conventions and speaker agency, informing how honorifics evolve and are interpreted in different communities.

Key finding: The paper proposes re-centering politeness studies around the concept of conventionalization as a three-way relationship between expressions, contexts, and speakers, rather than relying solely on indirectness. This... Read more
Key finding: Provides empirical instances from Japanese demonstrating that honorific modification (HM) can function disjointedly from politeness or respect, showing that honorific use is also a procedural and stylistic marker shaped by... Read more
Key finding: The chapter argues that honorifics constitute social deixis and function as indexicals that link language to social-personae and normative behaviors, enabling a socioculturally grounded interpretation of honorific use. It... Read more
Key finding: Through the case study of Lhasa Tibetan, the paper distinguishes grammatical convention (morphosyntactic categorizations enabling honorific forms) from indexical convention (contextually situated social meanings) in honorific... Read more

2. What are the syntactic and semantic mechanisms underlying honorific agreement and mismatches in allocutive languages, with focus on Japanese?

This theme focuses on the morphosyntactic and pragmatic principles that govern agreement or mismatches between allocutive markers and second-person pronouns in honorific systems, with a specific emphasis on Japanese. It explores how lexical vs. functional distinctions in pronoun honorificity affect syntactic binding and pragmatic interpretation, offering insights into cross-linguistic variation in honorificity agreements.

Key finding: The paper finds that unlike languages such as Punjabi requiring syntactic honorific matching between allocutive markers and second-person pronouns, Japanese allows mismatches due to the lexical status of its 2P pronouns with... Read more
Key finding: Analyzes Korean sentence-final particles to identify two separable semantic dimensions in honorifics: hierarchy (relative social positioning) and formality (type of social relation), demonstrating that these dimensions are... Read more
Key finding: Clarifies that Korean honorifics encode addressee honorifics and referent honorifics, each controlled by different social factors (speaker-addressee vs. speaker-referent relationships), and that appropriate use depends on... Read more

3. How do sociopragmatic variables and discourse contexts influence the pragmatic functions and perception of honorific expressions?

This theme investigates how sociolinguistic factors such as age, social status, social distance, and context shape the deployment and interpretation of honorific expressions across languages and genres, including literary discourse. It addresses how honorifics interact with politeness strategies, affect social positioning, and how speaker agency allows flexible honorific usage beyond rigid rules.

Key finding: Examines how honorific expressions in the literary context of the movie ‘Pride and Prejudice’ reflect sociolinguistic variables like age, social distance, education, and status, demonstrating that honorific choice is... Read more
Key finding: Finds that Hong Kong undergraduate students predominantly use acceptance strategies, mainly expressing gratitude, as compliment responses, aligning with Leech’s Maxim of Obligation rather than Modesty or Agreement,... Read more
Key finding: Reveals that Japanese speakers actively shift between humble and non-humble honorific forms even within the same ceremonial speech context to index changes in social persona and footing, thereby exercising speaker agency and... Read more
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Key finding: Argues that verbal submission and politeness practices function as symbolic exchanges that manage social power relations, where acts of self-limitation and deference uphold social hierarchies and ideologies; submission... Read more
Key finding: Finds that language insecurity relating to complex traditional honorific systems inhibits heritage language use by new speakers in contemporary Okinawan family interactions; simplifying honorific use and increasing flexible... Read more

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