Editing Phatic expression (section)

==History==
The term ''phatic communion'' ('bonding by language') was coined by anthropologist [[Bronisław Malinowski]] in his essay "The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages", which appeared in 1923 as a supplementary contribution to ''[[The Meaning of Meaning]]'' by [[C. K. Ogden]] and [[I. A. Richards]]. The term ''phatic'' means 'linguistic' (i.e. 'by language') and comes from the Greek {{Lang|grc|φατός}} {{Transliteration|grc|phatós}} ('spoken, that may be spoken'), from {{Lang|grc|φημί}} {{Transliteration|grc|phēmí}} ('I speak, say').<ref>[[Hartmut Haberland|Haberland, H.]] (1996) "Communion or communication? A historical note on one of the 'founding fathers' of pragmatics", in Robin Sackmann (ed.), "Theoretical linguistics and grammatical description", 163-166, Amsterdam: Benjamins</ref>