Words and phrases that have a meaning related to phatic: (20 results)
Often used in the same context:
Also try:symbolic, paralinguistic, deictic, emotive, indexical, performative, referential, symbolical, denotative, expressive, figurative, metaphoric, predicative, significative, allusive, hortatory, iconic, illocutionary, metaphorical, rhetorical
— Nouns for phatic: communion, function, communication, act, functions, language, vessels, talk, utterances, glands, system, more...
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