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Phatic, Emotive, Expressive Language Use by Christian Gonzales is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Phatic, emotive, and expressive language are non-literal uses of language that focus on social bonding and expressing emotions rather than conveying information. Phatic language strengthens social ties through greetings, farewells, apologies and thanks. Emotive language conveys strong feelings and attitudes through the use of interjections, exclamations, rhetorical questions and colorful adjectives. Expressive language allows self-expression through swearing, slang, poetic devices and other creative uses of
- Author
- Christian Gonzales
- Language
- EN