addressivity

English

Etymology

From addressive +‎ -ity.

Noun

addressivity (plural addressivities)

1. (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, →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

• In philosophical and literary contexts, this term is strongly associated with the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin.^[1]

References

1. Michael Shapiro & Marianne Shapiro (1998) The Sense of Form in Literature and Language‎, →ISBN, page 99: “According to Bakhtin, addressivity is a constitutive factor of every utterance.”