What is exophora?

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

The referent does not require another expression for its interpretation.

• What is deixis?
• What is homophora?

• What is reference?

Hartmann and Stork 1972 193

Crystal 1980 137

Halliday and Hasan 1976 13

Gutwinski 1976 67

Context for this page:

• Concept module: exophora
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): E
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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