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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"phatic communication"”.
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Questioning the Rhetorical Eclipse of Philosophical Leisure: Ad Colloquium Conferendum
Human communication in our postmodern era has degenerated into phatic communication. Phatic communication, appropriate in some circumstances, used unreflectively limits the ability for the development of healthy, idea-laden conversation. The phatic nature of communication represents a loss of human …
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Hybrid christian youth ministry: a study of closed-group social media
… identify levels of interaction which range from phatic communication through to expressions of Christian practices, raising expectations regarding discipleship. This thesis draws out key learning from the Wave group leaders and argues for a hybrid ministry as a best of both worlds approach, …
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CoListen
… and communicate with their friends, and that phatic communication (as opposed to goal-oriented communication) was prominent. I also found participants to be interested in the idea of technology to support co-listening and intrigued by how few little the barrier to co-listening can be, and how …