| 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. |
| Generally speaking, statements in WE are expected to be of a tautologous nature, thus fulfilling the essential phatic nature of speech. |
| 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. |
