“Employing words like “that” and “there” to refer to things which exist in the physical context of the talk. Exophoric reference is a kind of linguistic “pointing”.” (p. 23)
“Linguists would describe that kind of tie as an anaphoric reference, meaning that the link in the text is backwards from “them” to the earlier phrase. But links from pronouns can also be made forwards. [...] The forward linking from “This” to the next two sentences would be described as cataphoric reference.” (p. 60)
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