The phrase "address term" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a word or phrase used to address someone, often in a formal or respectful manner.
Example: "In the letter, she used the address term 'Dear Sir' to begin her correspondence."
Alternatives: "form of address" or "salutation".
Q: Mr. Perot, would you like to address term limitations?
"You're Mr. Lebowski, I'm the Dude": Inducing address term formality in signed social networks.
Council members said in interviews yesterday that they had had preliminary discussions about creating legislation to address term limits for the Council, but not those for the mayor, comptroller, public advocate or borough presidents, all of whom will have to leave office under the same 1993 law.
Auditory and acoustic analysis reveals the intonational seamlessness of the pivotal address term's junctures with adjacent talk.
This choice of address term Thay 'teacher' demonstrated the writer's respect for the recipient's status.
In one case, a Vietnamese address term other than kinship terms was employed to signify the writer's deference to the recipient's status: (58) Dear Thay BB: Dear teacher BB "Dear teacher BB:" Thank you very much, one more time, for having given us a chance to get your pupils to know about our school.
The Strategic Use of Address Terms in Multilingual Interactions during Family MealtimesFatma Said and Zhu Hua6.
Address terms operate as turn constructional pivots, simultaneously completing the prior syntactic unit and initiating the next unit.
It demonstrates that, and how, address terms can serve as a resource for extending turns at talk at this juncture.
This paper examines prefatory address terms as a resource by which responses can be cast as independently motivated rather than sequentially occasioned, acquiescent, or coerced.
Of the other address terms used, 16 % comprised titles (e.g., Dr, Mr, Ms) plus first names.
