phatic communication

is a kind of speaking where the content is unimportant and only the communion formed through speaking is important.

The term 'phatic communion' was coined by anthropologist Bronis aw Malinowski in his essay 'The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages,' which appeared in 1923 in The Meaning of Meaning by C.K. Ogden and I.A. Richards. The term comes from the Greek 'phatos' (spoken, that may be spoken), and from 'phanai' (to speak, say).Malinowski called 'phatic communion' (Malinowski 1949: . . . What he calls 'ties of union

is the notion that human speech never merely transmits a message, it always also self-reflectively asserts the basic symbolic pact between the communicating subjects.

Roman Jakobson called this fundamental mystery of the properly human symbolic order 'phatic communication': human speech never merely transmits a message, it always also self-reflectively asserts the basic symbolic pact between the communicating subjects. (zizek 'how to read' 12)

is the idea that people do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

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phatic communication