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phatic, a.|ˈfætɪk|
[f. Gr. ϕατός spoken, or ϕατικ-ός assertory, f. ϕάναι to say: see -ic.]
Of or pertaining to speech or verbal expression; spec. in phatic communion, a term applied by B. Malinowski (see Malinowskian a.) to speech communication as used to establish social relationships rather than to impart information. Hence used gen. to denote formal or trivial verbal contact.
1923B. Malinowski in Ogden & Richards Meaning of Meaning 478 There can be no doubt that we have here a new type of linguistic use—phatic communion I am tempted to call it, actuated by the demon of terminological invention—a type of speech in which ties of union are created by a mere exchange of words. 1929I. A. Richards Pract. Crit. iv. i. 318 It would be an excellent thing if all the critical chitchat..were universally recognised to be what it is, social gesture, ‘phatic communion’. 1942T. C. Pollock Nature of Lit. ix. 167 Phatic communion is one of the important ways in which men use language. 1954W. La Barre Human Animal xv. 306 A surprisingly large part of every culture is merely the phatic sharing of common emotional burdens, and has no relevance at all to the outside world. 195920th Cent. Nov. 379 The magic words of phatic chat that fell from my falsely smiling lips. 1964Listener 15 Oct. 603/3 How many of the youthful roarers of Parry's Jerusalem know that Blake's ‘dark satanic mills’ are not factories but churches?.. But the whole evening was warmly phatic, providing an image of British teenagers as less delinquent than jingoistic. 1971J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 29 Phatic expressions and greeting and leave-taking formulae never precisely match across cultural borders. 1972Scholarly Publishing Apr. 282/2 The reader on a committee who blandly and thoughtlessly says, ‘You really ought to get this study published’ (in the same phatic way he says, ‘Good morning’). 1976Archivum Linguisticum VII. 86 Those illocutionary acts for which there might seem, on the face of it, to be no propositional content at all: ‘greet’ for example..or ‘phatic communion’ of various sorts. 1977Time 21 Mar. 67/1 Many Western ears will find it hard to tell whether Merwin is being vatic or phatic. |