Publications
Kulkarni, Dipti. 2014. Exploring Jakobson’s ‘phatic function’ in instant messaging interactions. Discourse & Communication 8 (2) : 117–136.
Stenström, Anna-Brita. 2014. Avoid silence! Keep talking!: Pragmatic markers as phatic devices in teenage conversation. Functions of Language 21 (1) : 30–49.
Săftoiu, Răzvan. 2012. Small talk – a work of frame. In [no author]. Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures. (Dialogue Studies 17). John Benjamins. pp. 213–236.
Senft, Gunter. 2009. Phatic communion. In Östman, Jan-Ola, Jef Verschueren and Gunter Senft, eds. Culture and Language Use. (Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights 2). John Benjamins. pp. 226–233.
Mitchell, Kirsten, Melony Lenhardt and Albert N. Katz. 2007. On Acknowledging Thanks for Performing a Favor. Metaphor and Symbol 22 (3) : 233–250.
Urbanova, Ludmila. 2007. Phatic communion and small talk in fictional dialogues. In Butler, Christopher S., Julia Lavid and Raquel Hidalgo Downing, eds. Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing. (Studies in Language Companion Series 85). John Benjamins. pp. 349–358.
Senft, Gunter. 1996. Phatic communion. In Östman, Jan-Ola, Jef Verschueren, Jan Blommaert and Chris Bulcaen, eds. Handbook of Pragmatics.1995 Installment. John Benjamins.
Bazzanella, Carla. 1990. Phatic connectives as interactional cues in contemporary spoken Italian. Journal of Pragmatics 14 (4) : 629–647.