DOI: 10.36344/ccijhss.2021.v07i03.002

Pages: 62-66

Phatic communion is used to establish and maintain interpersonal relationships and social status, which aims to avoid embarrassment and release the stress of exchanging information. Different languages have different phatic communions, and the phatic communion also changes as time goes by. So this article tends to explore the changes of phatic communion in China by analyzing phatic communion used in Chinese TV plays and films at different times, and figures out the change tendency and reasons for these changes.