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Exophora

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environment in which the dialogue is taking place—to the "context of situation", as it is called—where the plants in question are present and can be pointed to if necessary. The interpretation would be "those plants there, in front of us". This kind of reference is called exophora, since it takes us outside the text altogether. Exophoric reference is not
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said while indicating the direction of the chair referred to. Given "Did the gardener water those plants?", it is quite possible that "those" refers back to the preceding text, to some earlier mention of those particular plants in the discussion. But it is also possible that it refers to the
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may be determined by the country in which it is spoken. Because there are many Queens throughout the world, the location of the speaker provides the extra information that allows an individual Queen to be identified.
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A type of exophora, homophora relates to a generic phrase that obtains a specific meaning through knowledge of its context; a specific example of homophora can variably be a "homophor" or a "homophoric reference".
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The precise origin of the term is not fully clear, but it is probably intended to suggest a
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are often exophoric, with words such as "this", "that", "here", "there", as in
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Index

Homophora
pragmatics
endophora
deictic
pronouns
cohesive
referring expression
M.A.K. Halliday
R. Hasan
Anaphora
Cataphoric reference
Generic antecedent
What is Homophora?
SIL International
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Formal semantics (natural language)
Compositionality
Denotation
Entailment
Extension
Generalized quantifier
Intension
Logical form
Presupposition
Proposition
Reference
Scope
Speech act

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