Phatic communication

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Phatic communication ( phatic communication ) or proper phatic communion ( phatic communion ) refers to speech acts that meet only a social function, as opposed to information requests, messages, commands, etc.

The term phatic communication goes back to the Polish anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski , who coined the term in 1923. He defined phatic communication as "a type of speech in which bonds of commonality are created through the mere exchange of words".

A typical example of phatic communication is the statement: “The weather is nice today!”. Also greetings and other phrases can be counted for phatic communication.

literature

  • Gunter Senft: Phatic communion (PDF; 47 kB). In: Gunter Senft, Jan-Ola Östman, Jef Verschueren (eds.): Culture and language use . John Benjamin, Amsterdam 2009, ISBN 978-90-272-0779-1 , pp. 226-233.

Individual evidence

  1. In the original: a type of speech in which ties of union are created by a mere exchange of words . Quoted from: Bronisław Malinowski: The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages . In: CK Ogden , IA Richards : The Meaning of Meaning. A Study of the Influence of Language Upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism. Supplementary Essays by B. Malinowski and FG Crookshank . Harcourt, 1923, p. 315.

Web links

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