exophora

English

From exo- +‎ Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō, “to carry”).

Examples
Pronouns are often exophoric, with words such as "this", "that", "here", "there", as in "that chair over there is John's" said while indicating the direction of the chair referred to

exophora (plural exophoras)

reference to something extralinguistic

Eugene E. Loos [et al.], editors (2003), “exophora”, in Glossary of Linguistic Terms, Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.

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