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This is not about knights and dames, nor is it about jazz musicians, such as Duke Ellington or Court Basie. Rather, it is about a most important issue in science, which is the difficult task of choosing titles for seminars, lectures, scientific papers, books and even the titles of the journals themselves. Today, we all have to compete for readers and listeners, and in the current ruthlessly com...

Honorific marking: Interpreted and Interpretable

Japanese, Korean, and Thai provide yet more extensive and articulated honorification paradigms, with a range of special formal, familiar, and derogatory pronominal forms, as well as verb forms and others. This extra dimension in the pronominal system separates these languages from, e.g., English and Arabic, where the pronominal paradigms make no such distinction. But it is evident that, in natu...

Situated Politeness: Manipulating Honorific and Non-honorific Expressions in Japanese Conversations

Attraction Effects in Honorific Agreement in Korean

Previous studies have suggested that sentence processing is mediated by content-addressable direct retrieval processes (McElree, 2000; McElree et al., 2003). However, the memory retrieval processes may differ as a function of the type of dependency. For example, while many studies have reported facilitatory intrusion effects associated with a structurally illicit antecedent during the processin...

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