The phrase "style of address" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the specific manner in which one speaks or writes to someone, including the language, tone, and level of formality used. Examples of using this phrase in a sentence are: - "When addressing your boss, it is important to use a respectful and professional style of address." - "The royal family has a very formal style of address, using titles and honorifics when speaking to one another." - "In their correspondence, the two politicians often used a confrontational style of address, making direct and aggressive statements towards each other."
From the beginning, he swept away microphone conventions, embracing a new listenership whose tolerance for his more staid contemporaries would yield to his alluring, if at times offensive, style of address.
When in doubt, simply address them by the most formal title available and leave it to them to invite a less formal style of address.
We puzzled over and earnestly discussed manner of presentation and styles of address that were stirringly far from the Broadway tradition of well-spoken players in well-made plays.
"Up," my former show, was much easier and much more natural and authentic to my default mode of address and style of conversation.
Gender-subordinating language, as in choice of level of formality (i.e., style) in forms of address (e.g. formal title versus first name versus nickname), is a subtle and more than likely entirely unconscious form of gender bias.
The team of Stéphane Richard, who formally succeeded Didier Lombard as chief executive on March 1, has a "few weeks" to install a new style of leadership to address the crisis, according to an interim report from Technologia, a human resources consulting firm, which was dated March 5 and obtained Monday by the International Herald Tribune.
Way back in the '20s, with the advent of radio came an intimate style of singing that addressed a single listener in the dark, and with it a style of song, syncopated, swinging, capable of verbal play and subtle tones and colors.
"His mind was vague and fuzzy", Frederick Allen writes in 1931: Its quality was revealed in the clogged style of his public addresses, in his choice of turgid and maladroit language ("non-involvement" in European affairs, "adhesion" to a treaty), and in his frequent attacks of suffix trouble ("normalcy" for normality, "betrothement" for betrothal).
He speaks to the camera in the style of previous video addresses by the al-Qaeda leader.
I'm rarely moved by the rhetorical style of Ivy League valedictory addresses, so when people say "the president made a great speech," it's just an unnecessary reminder that actions speak louder than words.
These give rise to two styles of politeness one addressed to ratifying the personality of the interlocutor (positive or solidarity politeness), and the other designed to mitigate or minimize impositions (negative or respect politeness).
