Meaning

In an endophoric way: with the referent being conditionally dependent on contextual cues within an utterance or text..

Example Sentences

The picture is unclear, for some verbs seem to permit all of the logical possibilities exemplified in (9)–(15) while others allow only some. I will have more to say about the conditions under which a deictic element in a sentential complement may be interpreted endophorically or exophorically in the discussion of mood and presupposition below.

Personal reference is a co-hyponym of textual cohesion; it deals with the first, second and third persons singular or plural; it can occur exophorically, or endophorically as anaphora or cataphora. The present paper is a descriptive study on the cohesiveness and translatability of personal reference; it describes its occurrence and cohesiveness in translating from French into English.

Therefore, we have replaced adnominal and adverbial demonstratives with a single category: “demonstrative modifier,” which can be applied either exophorically or endophorically, i.e., to refer to referents in the immediate environment, or to refer to linguistic aspects of the unfolding discourse.

Antonyms for endophorically

When Should You Use Endophorically?

Use endophorically when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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