phatic communion
noun1
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Communication that takes place primarily for social purposes rather than for the exchange of vital information, such as small talk and social pleasantries.
- We believe that it is in this spoken world, where people engage in phatic communion and indulge in the give-and-take of interpersonal socialising and the negotiation of personality, identity, friendship and connection [...] that one can best get a view of language vitality.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 8: