/?f?t?.?k/Phaticlanguagehas asocialpurpose,ratherthan beingintendedto giveinformation:（语言）交际性的；交流感情的phaticcommunication/utterances交流感情的通信／言谈the phaticmeaningof "How are you?"“你好吗”的交际性意义(Definition ofphaticfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofphatic
phaticThe contextual functions of an indexical are inseparable from its expressive andphaticfunctions.From theCambridge English CorpusThese exchanges illustrate the sorts of phenomena to which the term 'phatic' might be applied.From theCambridge English CorpusRather, it constitutes par t of a ritual, almostphatic, way of continuing with the sequence of interaction.From theCambridge English CorpusBut, in this context neither thephaticnor the non-phaticinterpretation is likely to be very salient.From theCambridge English CorpusThe morephaticimplications a communicative act has, the morephaticit is.From theCambridge English CorpusWhat distinguishesphaticimplicatures is that they depend to a greater extent on the communicative intention than on the proposition expressed by the utterance.From theCambridge English CorpusThe third intuition was thatphaticinterpretations become more likely when the social relationship between the interlocutors is in doubt.From theCambridge English CorpusOur account presupposed that these contextual assumptions madephaticinterpretations more relevant (and non-phatic assumptions less relevant) than they would otherwise have been.From theCambridge English CorpusIn section 4 we consider cases where cognitive effects similar to those caused byphaticinterpretations are conveyed but not ostensively communicated.From theCambridge English CorpusMoreover, utterances which are conventionallyphaticmay have non-phaticinterpretations in some contexts.From theCambridge English CorpusSo far, our discussion has relied on the view thatphaticimplications are communicated ostensively.From theCambridge English CorpusThey might have a case ifphaticcommunication were not an already established and widely accepted technical term.From theCambridge English CorpusWe can easily imagine a context where the latter requires minimal processing (certainly less than the former), yet the former is clearly the morephatic.From theCambridge English CorpusNote that this observation is independent of, and therefore evidentially stronger than, our conceptual analysis ofphaticcommunication.From theCambridge English CorpusThus, diminutives are most likely to occur inphaticcommunication and vocative speech acts (subject to further pragmatic constraints).From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/phatic##
