In the magazine entitled: Psychology Today:...?

Question

Conrad McCallum wrote an article entitled: Fuggedaboutit: Alpha Male Linguistics, and I quote:

Hey anytime. No biggie. Don't worry about it. Psycholinguistic research reveals that we choose our gratitude acknowledgements pragmatically, proving that such language isn't phatic after all. What is implied by the word phatic, herein?

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Useless content.

Answer 2

Noway

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Means-devoid of content.

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I am one who does not appreciate any psychology articles that have difficult to understand language. I feel if a person knows what they are trying to convey it can be in simpler terms.

Answer 5

Without conte3nt.

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No content

Answer 7

Is this your homework????

The definition that I know of for phatic communication means talking just to fill empty space, because silence tends to make a lot of people uncomfortable - especially women.

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with content

Answer 9

without content.

Answer 10

content, not.

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can deliever the goods.

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Content not included

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content less.

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without content

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Non content.

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contentless

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bigger man

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Nill content.

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lacks content

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non content