phatic

adjective · nounA2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more phatic

Superlative

most phatic

1.
(linguistics) Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship and whose meaning is otherwise either deemphasized or absent.
You needn't be angry about the insincerity of shopkeepers' how-are-you greetings. Well-adjusted people understand that the question is phatic in the context and that that's usually no problem.
Some dialects of a language may use a certain term or phrase in a phatic way, even if other dialects don't.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

phatics

1.
(linguistics) A phatic utterance.

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From grc φατός spoken - from φημί (I say) - -ic.