What is “Phatic Communication”?

Zegarac, Vladimir

doi:10.1075/pbns.58.14zeg

In:Current Issues in Relevance Theory
Edited by Villy Rouchota and Andreas H. Jucker
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 58] 1998
► pp. 327–362

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What is “Phatic Communication”?

Vladimir Zegarac

Published online: 15 June 1998

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.58.14zeg

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