addressivity
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From addressive + -ity.
Noun
[edit]addressivity (plural addressivities)
- (linguistics, philosophy) The quality of being addressive, of engaging in communication for the sake of one's interlocutor
- 1970, V.P. Nedyalkov, “On the Typology of the Polysemy of Verbal Affixes”, in Theoretical Problems of Typology and the Northern Eurasian Languages[2], →ISBN, page 97:
- Evidently, in certain languages some of these meanings may be expressed by special affixes (without a causative meaning), as, for example, the meanings of commitativity (cf. 6.3), addressivity (cf. 6.5) and mutuality (cf. 6.6) in Kabardian.
Usage notes
[edit]- In philosophical and literary contexts, this term is strongly associated with the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin.[1]