Adjective : phatic communion.    From Dictionary.com. 

The phatic is then the point at which language opens human being to the natural world (which, for shamanic cultures, is simply a larger assemblage of "people").    From Wordnik.com.  ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference

Jakobson derived the term "phatic" (for communications that foreground the contact) from Malinowski's work on meaning in "primitive" languages.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference

Population One considers it to be phatic extropian fiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Posthumanism] Reference

Stile looked helplessly at Neysa, who snorted em - phatic negation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Split Infinity]

As for phatic utterances, that's a tough one for a cognitive psychologist.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Blog] Reference

The interesting thing about "Jury Service" is that it's extropian phatic text.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: December 22, 2002 - December 28, 2002 Archives] Reference

The sea lay before them, faintly luminous, ghostly under a scatter of high, unem-phatic stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference

In person, we can rely on phatic communication and body language to bookend our conversations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Attractor » 2008 » September] Reference

The Dormouse's minimalist repetition also attests to the phatic dimension of the original poem.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference

Future ecocritical work will thus have to take the phatic dimension of language into account. 23.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference

The formulaic banality of these operations of phatic communion is such that information is actively absented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (3)] Reference

There is some work on the cognitive aspects of phatic utterances, and I have read some of it I don't remember why.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Blog] Reference

Is the function of a phatic communion simply to be at the start or end of a conversation as a signal of opening or closure?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (3)] Reference

And as people in business tend to steer well clear of obviously phatic communication, much of what Facebook enables becomes irrelevant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Attractor » 2007 » December] Reference

I wonder if one reason for this urge to send phatic email is that we have no reliable way of knowing if our email has been received and read.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Attractor » 2008 » September] Reference

The phatic quality of the original means that its phonemes and graphemes may be substituted for others, in the best tradition of nonsense verse.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference

I remember from a few months ago some papers/articles about some actual field research on the uses of phatic language in what we now like to call Red states.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Blog] Reference

In Jakobson's outline of the six-part model of communication, talking birds are said to share just one of the model's functions: the phatic (foregrounding the contact; Jakobson 356).    From Wordnik.com.  ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference

This explains the popularity in contemporary ambient electronic music of samples from radio talk shows ( "Hello, you're on the air"), scanned telephone conversations and other phatic phenomena. close window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes] Reference

Micro-blogging and online communities host most phatic conversations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fast Company] Reference

Fizzee is unique as a digital pet that is not solely phatic technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

… lastly, a point is lost for phatic postings with obvious meiosis intent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-War Protest on 29 North at cvillenews.com] Reference

What we're doing is transplanting a natural face-to-face behaviour, phatic expressiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Attractor] Reference

This phatic prattle is complemented by bus stop type metal sign boards obstructing the pavement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mute magazine - culture and politics after the net] Reference

Mixture of phatic technology and informative device (encouraging social interaction whilst providing personal health data).    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

This is similar to what I was saying in Omisyth's original post: some blogs, specifically episodic posts, function as phatic modes of communication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!] Reference

It is not easy to use semantic language in a way that is impossible to read using a phatic mindset - to have it so obviously conceptual that no emotional reading - and thus misunderstanding - is possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

But I think we can do something about the dehumanising aspect of device-mediated interactions, and that something is to use more social media, particularly the tools that encourage small talk and phatic communication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs] Reference

When you fall into the patterns of phatic language, it’s easy to forget.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 November « Looking for Roots] Reference

This is not to say that there’s not a lot of phatic communication going on in business - there is, it’s just not as obvious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Attractor » 2007 » December] Reference

I read somewhere that the vast majority of bloggers are these phatic teenage nonsense mongers, so it’s not like it’s a new thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [mort de rire?] Reference

But we do need to send less phatic email.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Attractor » 2008 » September] Reference

How about providing some info on phatic language.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Blog] Reference

However, Watts misses the phatic dimension.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fast Company] Reference

@porter: when phatic communication is outlawed, only outlaws will say "Have a nice day.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old New Thing] Reference