Glossary term H

Homophora

Homophora is reference that depends on cultural knowledge or other general knowledge, rather than on specific features of a particular context.

(English)

  • The use of the President in the U.S.
  • The use of the sun
  • The use of the baby between parents to refer to their own baby
  • The use of bees to refer generically to the class of bees in Bees make honey
  1. Halliday and Hasan 1976, 71
  2. Gutwinski 1976, 68
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