Meaning of endophorically | Babel Free

Definitions

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

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

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