In linguistics, a phatic expression (English: /ˈfætɪk/, FAT-ik) is a communication which primarily serves to establish or maintain social relationships...

essay "The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages", who coined the term "phatic communication" to describe it. The ability to conduct small talk is a social...

can be verbal, non-verbal, or both. Backchannel responses are often phatic expressions, primarily serving a social or meta-conversational purpose, such as...

speaker (backchanneling). In linguistic terms, these are a form of phatic expression. Aizuchi are considered reassuring to the speaker, indicating that...

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simply cannot be described as an empirically validated model.: 422–3  Phatic expression Taarof Group, United Language. "Communicating in High Context vs....

you she saw." Aizuchi Interjection Like: as a discourse particle Phatic expression So (word) Speech disfluency Juan, Stephen (2010). "Why do we say 'um'...

tokens (aizuchi). Backchannel refers to listener responses, mostly phatic expressions, that are made by a listener to support another speaker's flow of...

as slogans. The Phatic Function is language for the sake of interaction and is therefore associated with the Contact factor. The Phatic Function can be...

politeness? A contrastive study of phatic talk in teenage conversation," using Leech's Phatic Maxis.im to discuss phatic expressions in Spanish and English youth...

major works found inspiration in Ciceronian rhetoric but introduced a new phatic element to writing and include the Summa dictaminis edita iuxta doctrinam...

(: auto-reflection) emotive (: self-expression) conative (: vocative or imperative addressing of receiver) phatic (: checking channel working) metalingual...

near the bank of a creek called (Deoka or Deokay or Degh) near Chawinda Phatic, behind the agricultural main office in Pasrur, near the city of Sialkot...

partner places few emotional or intimate demands on them and does not expect phatic or social niceties. It is not necessarily people they want to avoid, but...

receiver; (4) conative, or the speaker's orientation toward the receiver; (5) phatic, or the attempt to establish and maintain contact between speaker and receiver...

bride and groom were about to engage in sex, they may have engaged in a phatic conversation in which the groom attempted to provide consolation to the...

English—that is, John has produced an English sentence; Austin calls this a phatic act, and labels such utterances phemes. John also referred to Jeff's shirt...

expression, makes any simple and direct translation of words taken in isolation almost impossible, which leads him to develop the notion of "phatic communion...

Minspeak included forty icons. The first was a picture of an ear, representing phatic exchanges (communication devoid of information exchange, i.e. "what’s up")...