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	What is Phatic Communication?
		A simple wave at a co-worker or a thumbs up signal to a friend can be considered phatic communication, in the same way a routine conversation at the bank would qualify.
		Phatic communication is also found every day in the workplace.
		While it is important to develop effective phatic communication skills, one must also recognize varying degrees of comfort with the process.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-phatic-communication.htm (419 words)

	Phatic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In linguistics, a phatic expression is one whose only function is to perform a social task.
		For example, "you're welcome" is not intended to convey the message that the hearer is welcome; it is a phatic response to being thanked, which in turn is a phatic whose function is to be polite in response to a gift.
		The utterance of a phatic expression is a kind of speech act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phatic (164 words)

	Phatic communication Between Chinese and westerner « The ChinesePod Blog with Ken Carroll
		Phatic communication is advanced by B. Malinowski in his paper “The problem of Meaning in Primitive Language”.
		Phatic communication refers to language used for establishing an atmosphere or maintaining social contact rather than exchanging or ideas.
		Phatic communication language, at a large degree, is influenced by the culture tradition.
	blogs.chinesepod.com /?p=122 (2259 words)

	The Distribution of Variable-length Phatic Interjectives on the World Wide Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		We believe that the restricted domain of variable-length phatic interjectives is an interesting subset of English that can provide an alternative simple model system of word length distributions.
		The frequency distributions of the lengths of these phatic interjectives exhibit clear power-law relationships (Figure 1).
		Variable-length interjectives are a small subset of the distribution of words than is usually studied, yet yield interesting behavior and should prove easier to investigate.
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	frog Design Mind - Gizmodo
		Phatic communication, a term first coined by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, is the international linguistic phenomenon of small talk; that is, exchanges meant to provide a social connection rather than transmit information.
		First introduced in 1996, these Japanese virtual pets satisfied the profound, hitherto untapped phatic desires of 14 million people to connect to lifelike avatars - hatched, grew, ate, and pooped before dying a slow death, only to be reborn with the click of a button like some digital phoenix rising from LED ashes.
		Clearly, manufacturers and consumers alike recognize the profound response to phatic technologies, but ironically the mass consumption, proliferation and market penetration of so many phatic devices herald the tipping point of their acceptance.
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	Purposes in Writing
		Phatic language (and nonverbal communication) establishes and maintains contacts between speakers or between writer and reader.
		Phatic purposes are not significant in most writing.
		The use of greetings and closings in letters is one example of phatic purpose in writing.
	web.umr.edu /~gdoty/classes/concepts-practices/purposes.html (683 words)

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		I also note that the examples of "high phatic" Democtrats given, Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy, were and are widely hated, so phatic communication obviously has its limits.
		Note that stereotypical "geeks" are examples of "very low phatic" individuals; they are often baffled or even irritated by others' attempts at phatic communication, and are very bad at phatic responses.
		Ronald Reagan would presumably be a great example of a "high phatic" speaker; he had almost nothing of any real substance to say, but golly, didn't he seem fine when saying it.
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	CSI: Geo7
		Jakobson also calls it a "glossing function" an explanation added between the lines or in the margins; and, since he develops an exasperating example of someone whose unfamiliarity with school vocabulary leads to repeated requests for definitions ("The sophomore was plucked"), such requests for "equational definitions" are dull, repetitive, "strictly metalingual" (356), yet somehow vital.
		Baudrillard writes: "The phatic function of language, used to establish contact and sustain speech's formal dimension: this function first isolated and described by Malinowski with reference to the Melanesians, then by Jakobson in his grid of language's functions, becomes hypertrophied in the tele-dimension of the communications networks.
		So, Phatic communication is primarily (dys)functional; to put it another way, this function is almost immediately tied to its dysfunction: it holds open the channel but in so doing puts genuine communication at risk.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/srb/cyber/geo7.html (1967 words)

	The written world:
		All such phatic signs are bypassed in computer conferencing.
		An on-line acquaintance once wrote me that he found himself "almost begging this machine to recognise me." The paucity of phatic expression in CMC amplifies certain social insecurities that no doubt were always there, but which now come to the fore.
		It is less rude to leave a letter unanswered than to refuse to reply to a direct question in face-to-face conversation.
	www.bdp.it /rete/im/feenberg1.htm (6839 words)

	Levels of Communication
		Phatic Communication: Using conventional messages to establish rapport, to break the ice, and/or to end a conversation.
		We expect phatic communication at the beginning and end of every conversation, regardless of our feelings about a person.
		That is, each conversation ought to begin with phatic communication and move through the levels (however quickly seems appropriate) before moving to the more intimate levels.
	www.nvcc.edu /home/npeck/Handouts/communicationlevels.htm (699 words)

	LINGUIST List 10.509: Phatic Communion
		Supplement to C. Ogden and I. Richards (eds.) The meaning of meaning: A study of the influence of language upon thought and the science of symbolism (pp.
		Other relevant references were also offered: "The first "linguistically relevant" mention of phatic communication in Roman Jakobson's "closing statement" to "Style in Language" ed.
		Malinowski on phatic communion] is reprinted in Laver, John and Sandy Hutcheson (eds.) 1972.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/10/10-509.html (292 words)

	nationelectric: phatic (FAT-ik) adjectiveRelating to a c
		your mama's so phatic, she always askin "how is the weather over there?".
		In conversation there is simply no reason to use phatic in preference to small talk -- both are two syllable words.
		And I would contend that the four extra key strokes to write small talk are worth it in terms of general communication.
	nationelectric.livejournal.com /284581.html (1903 words)

	Re: Phatic speech and language bullies
		In Reply to: Re: Phatic speech and language bullies posted by TheFallen on April 01, 2003
		It ponders split infinitives, phatic speech and other sins of non-strandard English.
		Re: Phatic speech and language bullies Hyacinth Bucket 04/04/03 (0)
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	Re: Phatic speech and language bullies
		In Reply to: Phatic speech and language bullies posted by Word Camel on March 31, 2003
		Re: Phatic speech and language bullies TheFallen 04/01/03 (2)
		Re: Phatic speech and language bullies Kit 04/01/03 (1)
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	Phatic Communion
		Just posting a note to let visitors know I’ve not entirely disappeared from Phatic Communion (or even D5GW for that matter.) The holidays, an impending change in employment, and a yearly redesign of PC have eaten up most of my attention.
		Such a method would be queer indeed, because I’d be establishing a new kind of social interaction, I think — unless some other blogger already dedicates a portion of his own blog to posting comments intended for another specific blog.
		So the following comment to “Growing Pack Behavior in Juvenile Homo Sapiens” will be revised here on Phatic Communion to HTML-formatting and thus in that particular only will not match the comment I intended to leave but may therefore be more legible.
	www.phaticcommunion.com (3259 words)

	phatic: See what people are saying right now on Technorati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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		Just posting a note to let visitors know I've not entirely disappeared from Phatic Communion (or...
		I have been absent from Phatic Communion for too long now, spending much of my Internet time reading other blogs or posting on the subject of fifth...
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	LISTENING EXERCISE
		Name ten individuals with whom you should, but do not experience productive phatic
		phatic communication with each of the foregoing individuals.
		In each case, what can you do specifically to improve the existing or desired phatic
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	The variability in the written length of phatic interjectives \| MetaFilter
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	Phatic Communion's Enhanced OODA - mapped to the Generations of Modern Warfare Theory categories on Flickr - Photo ...
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	phatic - Dictionnaire Français-Anglais WordReference.com
		We found no English translation for 'phatic' in our French to English Dictionary.
		Or did you want to translate 'phatic' from English to French?
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	Phatic Speech - Glossary Definition - UsingEnglish.com
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		Phatic speech or phatic communication consists of words or phrases that have a social function and are not meant literally.
		When people are thanked, they often say You're welcome in reply, and this is meant to show politeness and not to be interpreted as literally welcoming them.
	www.usingenglish.com /glossary/phatic-speech.html (95 words)

	mental_floss Vocab Rehab
		Harry was such a suspicious guy, that even a phatic inquiry like “What’s up, dude?” led him to think for hours on end about what the implication was of that one statement…
		Susan, an empty-brained bimbo, often feigned interest in her less attractive peers by recycling meaningless phatic phrases while nodding and responding with equally empty “Uh huhs” and “Mm hmms.”
		Comedian Martin Lawrence claims to have introduced the phatic catchphrase “You go, girl!” on his Fox sitcom, “Martin.”
	www.mentalfloss.com /trivia/vocab/?p=120 (107 words)

	LINGUIST List 10.390: Phatic communion, Job outlook for PhDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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		Dear subscribers to linguist list, Do any of you know who it was that first introduced the concept phatic communion?
		The oldest reference I have is Lyons (1968) (in Zegarac 1998); I also know that Austin (1962) distinguished between phatic and rhetic acts.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/10/10-390.html (230 words)

	'You've worked with Elizabeth Taylor!': phatic functions and implicit -- Boyle 21 (1): 26 -- Applied Linguistics
		exploratory function of phaticity can allow speakers to negotiate
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	DIY volt-mod guide - Alliance Of Overclocking Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
		Last edited by phatic : 29th December, 2006 at 08:17 AM.
		I'm not one to volt-mod, so I'll give it a pass.
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	Generalising phatic stylised intonation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Next: Phatic stylised focus II: Up: Oher, phatic focus.
		Distributional independence from sentence structure, though cooccurring with it.
		A number of phatic functions including Communication Channel-based discourse CONTROL functions in dialogue openings and closings.
	coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de /~gibbon/PhatFoc/phatfoc/node20.html (82 words)

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	conversation_paper.html
		Grice here is not very concerned with phatic communication. He seems to be considering conversations in which there is a common purpose or set of purposes, or at least a mutually-accepted direction, conversations in which "participants have some common immediate aim."19
		Here is a general model for conversation proposed by Harvey Sacks and associates:
		Laver, John. "Communicative Functions of Phatic Communication." In Organization of Behavior in Face-to-Face Interaction,Adam Kendon, Richard M. Harris and Mary Ritchie Key, eds., Paris: Mouton, 1975. pp.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~emiller/conversation_paper.html (3075 words)

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