mannersto
Mannersto is a fictional concept used in linguistic and cultural studies to describe a codified repertoire of social etiquette and interaction patterns within a hypothetical community. It is not an established real-world system, but a theoretical construct employed in pedagogy and speculative fiction to examine how manners regulate discourse, align participants with social roles, and organize public life.
The name combines the English word manner with the invented suffix -sto, intended to evoke a formalized
Core features of mannersto include prescribed greetings and forms of address, rules for turn-taking, appropriate body
Variants and interpretation of mannersto appear across different imagined cultures, sometimes emphasizing formality and ritual distance,
In scholarship and fiction, mannersto serves as a tool to discuss the ways normative etiquette shapes interaction,
See also: politeness theory; speech act; etiquette; ethnomethodology.