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ISSN: 2456-7620

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The Hierarchy of Honorifics in Bhojpuri

Vol-5,Issue-5,September - October 2020

Author: Anupriya

Keywords: Honorifics, Bhojpuri, politeness, Bihar, UP, Jharkhand.

Abstract: This paper studies the hierarchy of honorificity in the language of Bhojpuri. Bhojpuri is one of the dominant languages of Bihar which has a got a lot to explore in linguistically. Previously, a lot has been studied on Bhojpuri but this specific study deals with the case of honorificity in the various social contexts of Bhojpuri. It tries to showcase that how the speakers of the western dialect of Bhojpuri, spoken in western part of Bihar carry their cultural domains in the form of honorifics into the structure of their language.

ijeab doi crossrefDOI: 10.22161/ijels.55.21

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