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Anaphora (linguistics)

In linguistics, anaphora (/əˈnæfərə, -frə/) is the use of an expression whose interpretation depends upon another expression in context (its antecedent). In a narrower sense, anaphora is the use of an expression that depends specifically upon an antecedent expression and thus is contrasted with cataphora, which is the use of an expression that depends…

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