exophorically

English

Etymology

From exophoric +‎ -ally.

Adverb

exophorically (not comparable)

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

   Antonym: endophorically

   • 1974, Richard D. Brecht, “Deixis in embedded structures”, in Foundations of Language‎^[1], volume 11, number 4, pages 489-518:

     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.

   • 2019, Mohamed Abdou Moindjie, “The cohesiveness of personal reference in translation: a case study of French and English”, in International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, volume 8, number 4, →DOI, pages 130-136:

     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.

   • 2020, Terra Edwards, Diane Brentari, “The grammatical incorporation of demonstratives in an emerging tactile language”, in Front Psychol, volume 11, →DOI, →PMID, →PMCID, page 579992:

     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.