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"Hello!" "Thank you!" "You're welcome!" These are all phatic expressions, and people can argue about them.

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Since October I've really taken control of my life and at the risk of making some kind of phatic post I cant reccomend committing yourself fully, to something you love , enough. For ages I was occupying myself soley with menial things , the happiness of other people and using going out as a distraction. Its easy to do that as you can hide from yourself and what you want. I despise online inspo posts as i find them ridiculous but i suppose im trying to be more honest and mark something whatever it is. #me #life #london #gothgoth #phatic #life #dowhatyalikem8 #backtobeingspooky

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phatic

adjective | phat·ic | \ˈfa-tik\

of, relating to, or being speech used for social or emotive purposes rather than for communicating information

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Last of the series of this award-winning sketch show.

The latest episode of John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme (Episode 6, Series 7) has an excellent linguisticky bit starting at 16:42, featuring a character who’s a professor of linguistics and quite possibly the first time “phatic” has been used in a comedy sketch. You can listen on the BBC’s website for the next six weeks. The whole episode is also great, and also features a minor linguistic issue of word boundary phonetics in the denouement, which I won’t spoil here.

I think I might have called it a discourse marker rather than a phatic expression, but I’m not going to look a gift linguistic comedy sketch too much in the mouth. (Hey BBC, if you ever want future advice on linguistics for comedy sketch shows, feel free to email me.)

There’s also a great sketch from Episode 2, Series 7 (still online for 9 days), about Shakespeare Original Pronunciation.

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