1. A person who gives an address or speech.
2. A person who addresses (applies an address to an object to be delivered to a particular location).
3. A machine that addresses.
"Addresser" was used in Karl Bühler's Organon-Model and more recently in Roman Jakobson six functions of language (or communication functions). [See >wikipedia<]
It's always interesting to see what EFL types think can be used.
Roman Jakobson was indeed a Russian–American linguist, and Karl Bühler a German-American linguist (the latter the dissertation advisor of Karl Popper).
So yeah. It was used in the 1930's. Don't use it now.
It's like when I talk to cousins/relatives in Hamburg and I'm speaking in a dialect that hasn't been used regularly since the 1970's. They've heard it in documentaries but it's not in regular use.
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izzythepush
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Tue 8 Nov, 2016 04:46 am
@dalehileman,
Only if you think that the entirety of English vernacular is contained within the Western US. That's probably why you're being mardy and mithering like a wazzock.
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Sturgis
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Tue 8 Nov, 2016 08:42 am
@ehBeth,
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...people will look at you/your writing as if you're slightly off.
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