期刊名称：Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy
印刷版ISSN：2067-3655
出版年度：2018
卷号：10
期号：2
页码：459-472
语种：English
出版社：Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
摘要：This paper focuses on the present trend in media use that emphasises the social connection over the content of the speech. Small communicative processes and indexical gestures are numerous especially in the digital area and they are symptomatic for the category of phatic communication. The article explains the concept of “phatic”, from Malinowski and Jakobson to the contemporary approaches that propose terms such as “phatic technologies” and “phatic systems”. Also, revisiting Heidegger’s arguments on the concept of “idle talk”, we grasp several key aspects of understanding phatic communication. The characteristics and possible negative consequences of a raising phatic media culture are discussed, underlining its complexity and the modalities in which it can re-shape our behaviours and our valuable cultural tools (dialogue, conversation or narratives).
