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Depending on the construction, it can be the direct addressee (second person), or another participant in the speech.
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Perhaps the law should also be made known to, or easily knowable by, the citizens on whom it is liable to impinge, as a matter of fairness to them: but they are not its direct addressees.
DHS/USCIS WASHDC should be a direct telegraphic info addressee.
The mail cover allowed the FBI to photograph the outside of any envelope directed to the addressee, including postmarks and return addresses.
Generic readings can appear as a subclass of deontic readings (Leiss 2008: 23).42 In the examples in 13, the subject is agentive and accordingly [+HUMAN]; in 13b, the speaker puts a direct obligation on the addressee subject.
In direct address, when the social status of either the addressee or the referent is very high, it seems to override the influence of social distance.
The agent orientation of 必 bì is much stronger than that of the root and circumstantial modal auxiliary verbs 當 dāng and 可 kě; these are frequently explicitly not directed to a specified addressee.
The question, literally concerning the addressee's ability, is direct.
With deontic 必 bì, a direct command is issued to an addressee; but in 24, the obligation rather refers to the event represented by 免 miǎn 'avoid' than to the state of thinking represented by sī 思.56 But in this example, an adverbial analysis of 必 bì expressing the confidence of the speaker that the proposition will be true under the conditions specified in the protasis cannot be excluded.
According to Williams (2002: 74), in an assertion, the speaker either gives a direct expression of belief, or he intends the addressee to "take it" that he has the belief (cf. Owens 2006).
And this does not depend on whether the nonprisoner correspondent is the author or intended recipient of a particular letter, for the addressee as well as the sender of direct personal correspondence derives from the First and Fourteenth Amendments a protection against unjustified governmental interference with the intended communication.
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