Językowe rytuały fatyczne w publikacjach edukacyjnych

Abstract

The paper includes an analysis of selected educational publications addressed to children who learn to read, as well as to learners who develop their knowledge about language. The aim of the analysis is to answer the following questions: What linguistic phatic rituals are present in the analysed texts? How can cognitive, linguistic and social distance be minimalised or maximalised among the participants of an educational discourse? A descriptive approach presented in this paper refers to linguistic and stylistic manners of forming a phatic community, first of all in communication with children who learn to read and with learners who can read on their own. The analysis intends to indicate the means that serve to develop a phatic community and to capture the characteristic features for the phatic rituals due to the recipient’s status.