<em><u>Anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning. It can be compared with cataphoric reference, which means a word refers to ideas later in the text. 'I went out with Jo on Sunday. ... They can then practise this by using pronouns to replace words themselves.</u></em>
Anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning. It can be compared with cataphoric reference, which means a word refers to ideas later in the text. 'I went out with Jo on Sunday. ... They can then practise this by using pronouns to replace words themselves.
Cataphoric reference means that a word in a text refers to another later in the text and you need to look forward to understand. It can be compared with anaphoric reference, which means a word refers back to another word for its meaning. 'When he arrived, John noticed that the door was open'.
