What is “Phatic Communication”?

Žegarac, Vladimir

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“…Los investigadores han caracterizado este objetivo en relación con las funciones del lenguaje de Jakobson ([1960] 1999), las prácticas discursivas (por ejemplo, Laver, 1974(por ejemplo, Laver, , 1975(por ejemplo, Laver, , 1981, la teoría de la relevancia (Padilla Cruz, 2009;Žegarac, 1998). Todos estos enfoques ofrecen una amplia gama de conocimientos sobre el funcionamiento de la comunión fática con un énfasis en la naturaleza universal de la práctica.…”

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La comunión fática como práctica local: la anticortesía y la cortesía positiva en el contexto mexicano / Phatic communion as local practice: anti-politeness and positive politeness in the Mexican context

Fowler

Vargas

Robles³

2013

Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics

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La comunión fática como práctica local: la anticortesía y la cortesía positiva en el contexto mexicano Phatic communion as local practice: anti-politeness and positive politeness in the Mexican contextResumen: Los enfoques tradicionales en el estudio de la comunión fática han examinado el concepto en términos de la función social (Malinowski, [1923] 1984), la función del lenguaje (Jakobson, [1960] 1999) así como su ocurrencia en las etapas iniciales y de cierre de una interacción (Laver, 1981). Intentos por clasificar la comunión fática en términos universalistas predeterminados (Svennevig, 1999) corrieron el riesgo de alejarse del concepto de entendimientos cotidianos donde interactuantes emplean el uso del lenguaje dinámico para lograr los objetivos de comunicación específicos en contextos particulares. Los enfoques contemporáneos tratan de redefinir la comunión fática en términos interpersonales. La investigación sobre el uso del lenguaje fático en América Latina ha sido muy limitada, con contadas excepciones (por ejemplo, Placencia, 2004(por ejemplo, Placencia, , 2005Stenström y Jörgensen, 2008). Con la finalidad de investigar el tema en el contexto mexicano, donde todavía se considera en términos convencionales, examinamos un corpus formado por 92 instancias de comunión fática, recabadas en Guadalajara, México. Sostenemos que en el corpus antes aludido se emplea la comunión fática a fin de expresar y destacar la cortesía positiva (Curco, 1998(Curco, , 2007(Curco, , 2011 en maneras poco convencionales, dado que el término tiene un alcance muy amplio en el que abarca: la anticortesía, el uso del lenguaje creativo, los juegos lingüísticos, la ironía, y los anglicismos.Palabras clave: comunión fática, anticortesía, cortesía positiva, México Abstract: Traditional approaches have examined the study of phatic communion in terms of social function (Malinowski, [1923(Malinowski, [ ] 1984, language function (Jakobson, [1960(Jakobson, [ ] 1999 and their occurrence in the initial stages of openings and closings (Laver, 1981). Such attempts to categorise phatic communion in pre-determined universalistic terms (Svennevig, 1999) ran the risk of distancing the concept from everyday understandings where speakers and listeners engage DOI 10.1515DOI 10. /soprag-2012DOI 10. -0011  soprag 2013 1(2): 199-226 Unauthenticated Download Date | 5/12/18 1:33 PM in dynamic language use to achieve specific communicative goals in specific contexts. Contemporary approaches have attempted to reposition phatic communion in interpersonal terms. Less work has been carried out on phatic talk in Latin America, with some notable exceptions (Placencia, 2004(Placencia, , 2005. In order to investigate this concept in the Mexican context, where it is still considered in conventional terms, we examine a corpus of 88 instances of phatic communion collected in Guadalajara, Mexico. We argue that in this corpus, phatic communion is used to express positive politeness (Curcó, 1998(Curcó, , 2007 since it reinforces solidarity and supportiveness ...

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La comunión fática como práctica local: la anticortesía y la cortesía positiva en el contexto mexicano / Phatic communion as local practice: anti-politeness and positive politeness in the Mexican context

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Robles³

2013

Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics

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“…Although true conversational speech often conveys information about the speaker, we simplify it in this study to be purely phatic, or social in its purpose, containing no information about the robot's intended task [37], [38]. …”

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Perceived robot capability

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Srinivasa

2015

2015 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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Abstract-Robotics research often focuses on increasing robot capability. If end users do not perceive these increases, however, user acceptance may not improve. In this work, we explore the idea of perceived capability and how it relates to true capability, differentiating between physical and social capabilities. We present a framework that outlines their potential relationships, along with two user studies, on robot speed and speech, exploring these relationships. Our studies identify two possible consequences of the disconnect between the true and perceived capability: (1) under-perception: true improvements in capability may not lead to perceived improvements and (2) over-perception: true improvements in capability may lead to additional perceived improvements that do not actually exist.

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“…Within the framework of Relevance Theory (Sperber andWilson, 1986,1995), Nicolle and Clark (1998), Zegarac (1998) and Zegarac and Clark (1999a) have tried to explain why an individual recovers a phatic interpretation of utterances. Like other authors, they also think that the phaticity of utterances is not one of their inherent features but depends on the interpretation that interlocutors make of them.…”

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“…Secondly, I review the two groups of explanations about why individuáis interpretutterances as phatic. Then, I introduce the extant analysis of phatic utterances based on the pragmatic paradigm of Relevance Theory (Sperber andWilson, 1986, 1995) by Zegarac (1998) and Zegarac and Clark (1999a). Finally, I present the complementary proposal that I have developed which is also based on Relevance Theory (Sperber andWilson, 1986,1995) and the notions of metarepresentation (e.g.…”

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“…Thus, some conversation analysts have shown that this is due to the stractural properties of some utterances and their occurrence with others in very specific conversational phases, while some pragmaticians have maintained that the activation of some knowledge structures and the way in which individuáis process them condition their interpretation. More recently, within the framework of Relevance Theory (Sperber andWilson, 1986, 1995), other pragmaticians (Zegarac, 1998;Zegarac and Clark, 1999a) have suggested an alternative approach, according to which interlocutors interpretutterances as phatic if the information that they convey does not satisfy specifíc expectations of obtaining a certain informative benefit.…”

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On the phatic interpretation of utterances: a complementary relevance-theoretic proposal

Cruz¹

2005

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In this paper, I suggest a theoretical approach to the production and interpretation of phatic utterances aimed at complementing other previous accounts. These argüe that utterances are normally interpreted as phatic either because of their occurrence in particular conversational phases forming fixed adjacency pairs with other utterances, or because interlocutors actívate specific frames and process them in a particular way. Besides, the extant relevancetheoretic (Sperber andWilson, 1986, 1995) analysis of these utterances has focused on the linguistic properties that make utterances be interpreted as phatic, but has not explained how a speaker has to produce an utterance so that the hearer interprets it as phatic and why phatic utterances contribute to the creation of a feeling of solidarity and ties of unión between interlocutors..

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What is “Phatic Communication”?

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La comunión fática como práctica local: la anticortesía y la cortesía positiva en el contexto mexicano / Phatic communion as local practice: anti-politeness and positive politeness in the Mexican context

La comunión fática como práctica local: la anticortesía y la cortesía positiva en el contexto mexicano / Phatic communion as local practice: anti-politeness and positive politeness in the Mexican context

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