英汉寒暄语的差异分析(4)
2.4 Basic Forms of the Phatic Communion
It is not hard for us to realize that there are many different kinds of the basic form of the phatic communion when we devoted ourselves to searching materials about the basic form of the phatic communion. These are four basic forms of the phatic communion, including greetings, inquisitorial, comments, retrospective. For instance, “Hello”, “How are you”, “Nice to meet you”, “Good-bye” and many other phatic communions. It closes to our daily life here and there. It also reflects the nation’s feature of the social norm, value, thinking habit and so on. When we tell apart from the basic form in phatic communion, we would communicate with other people easily.