英语词汇phatic speech的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	phatic speech
词源	phatic speech. A term coined in 1923 by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski meaning speech employed to express good will or sociability rather than give information. The au- thor and critic Anatole Broyard called phatic speech “a friendly noise.” The word phatic comes from Greek phatos, “spoken.” Malinowski’s exact coinage was phatic communion.
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