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How to use phatic in a sentence

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The patterns of exchange characteristic of chats are phatic, and their primary purpose is to get and maintain a social link.
That is, to the extent of the considerable diminishing of the phatic and conative functions.
These functions he terms are emotive, referential, poetic, phatic, metalingual, and conative.
Generally speaking, statements in WE are expected to be of a tautologous nature, thus fulfilling the essential phatic nature of speech.
Our language may sound less communicative than chirpy: not in the sense of cheerful, but rather like the phatic calls of birds, simply emphasizing that we are still here to do the telling.
Trumpspeak comes close to pure phatic communication: speech with the sole purpose of making the listener feel good, rather than conveying any information.
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