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What is anaphora in grammar?
Anaphora is the use of a word (typically a pronoun) to refer back to an earlier word or phrase (the antecedent).
What are the two types of anaphora?
-Antecedent anaphora and complement anaphora.
What is cataphora in grammar?
Cataphora is when a pronoun or reference appears before the noun or phrase it refers to.
What are some functions of cataphoric references?
To avoid repetition, build anticipation, create mystery, and foreshadow future information
. What is endophoric reference?
. A reference to something within the text itself; includes anaphora and cataphora.
What is exophoric reference?
Reference to something outside the text, in the situational context.
What is a connector in discourse?
-A word or phrase that links clauses or sentences to indicate relationships between ideas.
What are the main types of connectors?
-Conjunctions, adverbs, prepositions, interjections, and full phrases or clauses
. What is the difference between actual and hypothetical conditionals?
Actual conditionals express real situations (e.g., “because”, “so”), while hypothetical conditionals express possible or imagined situations (e.g., “if…then”).
What are contrastive connectors?
Words like “but”, “though”, “nevertheless” that indicate contrast with expectations.
What is deixis?
Deixis refers to words or phrases that require contextual information to be understood.
What are the main types of deixis?
Personal deixis (who), temporal deixis (when), and spatial deixis (where).
What does personal deixis refer to?
identifies participants in a conversation (e.g., I, you, he, she, we, they).
What is temporal deixis?
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Refers to the time of an event using expressions like “now”, “then”, “yesterday”.
What is spatial deixis?
A: Refers to location in space using words like “here”, “there”, “above”, “below”.
