Concept: exophoric reference

Definition

[[An expression has exophoric reference if it °refers directly to an extralinguistic referent.]]

Wikipedia

exophora

SIL Glossary

exophora

Quotation

"[There is] more or less general agreement that the deictic (gestural, exophoric) use of demonstratives is basic and that endophoric (anaphoric and cataphoric) uses are derived from this basic source." (König 2020: 22)

Sources

König 2020