网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的英文单词：

　

单词 anaphora
释义
anaphora
noun[U]
languagespecialized
uk
/ə.'næf.ə.rə/us
/ə.'næf.ə.rə/
the use ofanaphors(= words that refer to andreplaceother words usedearlierin atext):
In anaphora, themeaningof anexpressiondependsonitsantecedent.
Compare
cataphora
thepracticeinliteratureorrhetoric(=speechor writingintendedtoimpressorpersuadepeople)ofrepeatingthe same word at thestartof severalsentencestoachieveaneffect:
Nopoethas used anaphora moreeffectivelythan he does in thiswork, with everylinebeginning"Because".
More examples
  • Anaphora is atypeofcohesiverelationwhichpointsto anearlierreferencein thetext.
  • Thechoiceofpronounin anaphora wasfoundtosplitalonggenderlines, with womenwritersmuch lesslikelyto use "he" to refer back to anindeterminategender.
  • Comparisons were made between children'scomprehensionof verb-phrase anaphora at differentages.
  • Therepetitionof "we" at thestartof eachsentenceis anaphora.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
  • affricate
  • allophone
  • allophony
  • anaphor
  • anaphoric
  • chatty
  • colloquial
  • double entendre
  • downtoner
  • emphatic
  • entailment
  • etymological
  • etymologically
  • flowery
  • oxymoron
  • philological
  • polysemy
  • portmanteau word
  • prescriptivism
  • prescriptivist
See more results »
(Definition ofanaphorafrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
anaphora
noun[U]
languagespecialized
uk
/ə.'næf.ə.rə/us
/ə.'næf.ə.rə/
the use ofanaphors
前指代法

Examplesofanaphora

anaphora
The issues raised in this chapter are uniqueness, coreference, backward pronominalization and donkeyanaphora.
From theCambridge English Corpus
First, the augmented ranking rule points to interesting new directions in understanding backwardanaphora.
From theCambridge English Corpus
First it is not empirically tested that in cases of backwardanaphorathe antecedent is found in the immediate discourse.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Like inferencing,anaphoracan be perceived as occurring on a continuum, involving greater or lesser cognitive activity, depending on both text-based and reader-based variables.
From theCambridge English Corpus
While this book contains a lot of material about intrasententialanaphora, there is virtually nothing about discourseanaphora.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The system lacked any other means of connecting individual sentences - even a rudimentaryanaphoraresolution was not available.
From theCambridge English Corpus
One of the heuristics incorporated in the new algorithm approximates resolution of definiteanaphora.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It attempts to resolveanaphora(in its most general sense) locally within a discourse segment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In sum, the corpus data suggest stable gender differences inanaphora.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The results indicate that gender was a factor in the pronoun selection inanaphora.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Extra information is provided by ananaphoraresolution preprocessing step.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A system foranaphoraresolution can make use of these symbols.
From theCambridge English Corpus
While the marking ofanaphorashould be applicable to other languages without too many problems, this seems to be less likely for the grammatical annotations.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A temporalanaphoraresolution mechanism would be needed to determine that particular minute from the context, but our framework currently provides no such mechanism.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A detailed examination of examples of relationalanaphorais beyond the scope of this paper.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/anaphora##
随便看

　

英汉词典包含213609条英汉翻译词条，涵盖了常用英语单词及词组短语的翻译及用法，是英语学习的必备工具。

　

Copyright © 1999-2024 qbania.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间：2024/12/28 2:57:49