A Semantics for Honorifics with Reference to Thai
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This paper proposes a general framework for the semantics of honorific expressions, including honorific pronouns, morphology, and discourse particles. Such expressions are claimed to indicate a level of politeness which must be compatible with a level of formality fixed by the discourse context together with sociolinguistic factors, and, with their use, to change the range of formality the context specifies. Specific honorifics are taken to introduce expressive content of a kind modeled by realnumbered intervals. This general picture is exemplified with the honorific system of Thai.
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