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What is the adjective for phaticity?

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phatic
  1. (linguistics) Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship e.g polite mood, rather than meaning; for example, "How are you?" is often not a literal question but is said only as a greeting. (Similarly, a response such as "Fine" is often not an accurate answer, but merely an acknowledgement of the greeting.)
  2. Examples:
    1. “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.”
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