noun[mass noun] Linguistics
late 20th century: from endo- 'within', on the pattern of anaphora.
- More example sentences
- Here, 'he' is endophoric because it refers forwards to the proper noun Harry and 'her' refers back to the noun boss.
- The identification of endophoric references, and the previous information they had about the topic, helped them to manage the text structure successfully.
Definition of endophora in:
- The US English dictionary