Phatic communion

Recognising that some communications are more about social function than conveying a specific informative message.

“There can be no doubt that we have here a new type of linguistic use-phatic communion I am tempted to call it, actuated by the demon of terminological invention-a type of speech in which ties of union are created by a mere exchange of words. Let us look at it from the special point of view with which we are here concerned; let us ask what light it thro…