phatic

a. 交流感情的, 仅仅是交际性的

发音

其它 /ˈfætɪk/

词形变化

phatics 复数 more phatic 比较级 most phatic 最高级

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A phatic utterance.

    语言学
adj.
  1. 1.

    Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship and whose meaning is otherwise either deemphasized or absent.

    语言学

    You needn't be angry about the insincerity of shopkeepers' how-are-you greetings. Well-adjusted people understand that the question is phatic in the context and that that's usually no problem.

    Some dialects of a language may use a certain term or phrase in a phatic way, even if other dialects don't.

相关短语

phatic communion

词源

From Ancient Greek φατός (phatós, “spoken”) - from φημί (phēmí, “I say”) - + -ic. Probably formally influenced by emphatic, which predates this term.

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