Exophorically

Quick meaning: Exophorically is an adverb meaning In an exophoric way: with the referent being conditionally dependent on contextual cues outside (external to) an utterance.

Meaning

In an exophoric way: with the referent being conditionally dependent on contextual cues outside (external to) an utterance.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Antonyms for exophorically

Common opposites include endophorically.

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