exophoric
adjective
languagespecializeduk/ˌek.səˈfɒr.ɪk/us/ˌek.səˈfɔːr.ɪk/referring to something orunderstoodbecause of somethingoutsideatextorconversation:
外指的（使用涉及文本之外情景的语言的）The use of exophoricreferencerequiressomesharedknowledgebetween twospeakers, or betweenwriterand reader(s).外指引用的使用需要两个对话者之间或作者和读者之间有部分共同的知识。
Pronouns are often exophoric, as are words such as "this", "that", "here", "there".代词通常是外指性的，下面这些词也是：“this（这），that（那），here（这里），there（那里）”。
Compare
anaphoric
cataphoric
- Thiskindof exophoricreferencedoes notdependon thespecificsituationtodistinguishit.
- Exophoric oftendenotesapronounsuch as "I" or "you", whosemeaningisdeterminedbyreferenceoutsidethediscourse.
- In "Is that the one you weretalkingabout?" the words "that" and "you" are exophoric, as theydependoncontextsoutsidetheconversationinorderto beunderstood.
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- chatty
- colloquial
- distributive
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- flowery
- oxymoron
- philological
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism
- prescriptivist