Glossary term E

Exophora

Exophora is reference of an expression directly to an extralinguistic referent.

The referent does not require another expression for its interpretation.

More specific concepts within exophora.

  1. Hartmann and Stork 1972, 193
  2. Crystal 1980, 137
  3. Halliday and Hasan 1976, 13
  4. Gutwinski 1976, 67
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