NOUN
- conversational speech used to communicate sociability more than information
How To Use phatic communication In A Sentence
- Weed was the reason girls selected clothes based on fuzziness, the reason boys sounded dumb, the reason we inflected every sentence as a question and usedlike andyou know as phatic communications. FOR NICE GIRLS WHO LIKE STUFF | clusterflock
- You might even sense that responses like "sure," "anytime," or "no problem" - as well as "you're welcome" itself - are what linguists call phatic communications, words that don't really convey information so much as they perform a social role. Boston Globe -- Ideas section
