Phatic Communion In Everyday Talk Essay

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Phatic Communion in Everyday Talk

“Organized talk is the secret of social success” phatic communion in everyday conversation was described by Malinowski in which “serves to establish bonds of personal union between people brought together by the mere need of companionship and does not serve any purpose of communicating ideas.” (Malinowski) at the same time, he claimed that language in ordinary conversation is not dependent upon what happens at the moment of conversation, but it seems to be more deprived or independent of any context of the situation. Consequently, the meaning of any utterance cannot be related to the speaker’s or hearer’s behavior, or with the purpose of what they are trying to achieve or do yet he mentioned subtly that, there …show more content…

In which the speaker’s individual speech establishes a choice of a particular genre. for example, the various everyday greeting, congratulations, all kind of different types of wishes and information about health, business or weather. In which each and every individual of these genres of conversation depends differently on the situation, social position, and personal interrelations of the participants in the communication. However, the two above-mentioned quite different interpretations of the phatic function of talk and both have a common core which stresses socializing and mutuality factors in organizing and effecting the ordinary talk Leading to Roman Jakobson’s model of the phatic communion of language. And coined the definition of The concept “is specifical to blind people together to maintain contact between the speakers and to establish an interactional framework for the encounter”. And divided it into six factors which are required for communication. The main purpose of being engaged in a particular speech act is establishing a phatic communion which we mostly use spontaneously in ordinary talk; conceives some overlaps with interpersonal …show more content…

Conversations exhibit has a very wide range of styles, degrees, and features which follow unpredictably each other. firstly, opining the conversation by using the appropriate rule of etiquette in which people prefer to use when one person addresses the other. Secondly Adjacency pairs, (Schegloff and Sacks 1973), people tend to be co-operative in conversations. Adjacency pairs are the way in which conversations can be segmented into pairs of exchanges that are connected in some way even though spoken by different speakers. A question, for example, expects an answer. A statement invites a response (agreement or disagreement). Secondly, Implicatures these are implied meanings of words, in which we say what we mean by ignoring the predictable means. for example, if you were in a hurry and a friend called out, 'Look, there's a bus', you would understand it to mean 'Quick, let's catch it' and would not reply, 'Oh yes, so there is. A sudden unpredictable break of the convention of conversation (implicatures) would lead to Humor is fascinating, sometimes is made intentionally or not, but it can completely undermine or overstate a conversation’s significance in an irrational way causing a sudden relief. Thirdly, Tag questions are familiar questions, most of the times are rhetorical, interpreted as co-operative strategies inviting response and giving the listener the chance to utter

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