A greeting is a type of phatic expression.
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Phatic
/ˈfætɪk/
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You needn't be angry about the insincerity of shopkeepers' how-are-you greetings. Well-adjusted people understand that the question is phatic in the context and that that's usually no problem.
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Some dialects of a language may use a certain term or phrase in a phatic way, even if other dialects don't.
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Generally speaking, statements in WE are expected to be of a tautologous nature, thus fulfilling the essential phatic nature of speech.
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