0 a person whose name or address is written on a letter or parcel --
1 the person whose name or address is written on a letter or package: --
The addressee's name was spelled incorrectly on the letter.
Mediated discourse was not only a way of overcoming distance between the addresser and the addressee of the message.
However, note that the use of a second person pronoun implies the presence of an addressee.
In contrast, básá is an addressee-oriented or "second-person" way of speaking which stresses the appellative function of language.
And it also leads to control of one's linguistic repertoire so that it can be adapted to different addressees and circumstances.
Only the graduate students were in the position of talking about a referent of higher status to an addressee of lower status.
However, a chatter can respond to a message left hours earlier and the response will perhaps never be seen by the addressee.
For instance, the definite article the specifies that the instance it grounds is presumed to be identifiable to the addressee.
And it involves being able to produce interesting and varied linguistic output that is attuned to different addressees and communicative contexts.
