#appellative

• Addressing — Relating to address or serving to express the act of directly addressing an interlocutor; having the value of a direct appeal. In modern linguistics and discourse analysis, the term defines suprasegmental features, pronominal formulas, or special syntactic structures used by a speaker to capture the dialogue partner's attention, establish communicative contact, or nuance social hierarchy and politeness.
• Appellative — A word or linguistic formula used to address, catch the attention of, or speak directly to a person (e.g., 'sir', 'grandfather', 'hey'). As an adjective, it describes a common noun (as opposed to a proper noun) that names an entire class of objects or beings, or refers to a language function centered on the receiver, aiming to provoke a reaction.