| 词汇 | cataphor |
| 释义 | cataphor noun[ C ] language specializeduk /ˈkæt.əˌfɔːr/ us /ˈkæt̬.əˌfɔːr/ a word that refers to a word used later in a text and replaces it, for example "he" in the sentence "When he saw me, Joe smiled.": 指后照应词（内容由下文加以说明） In the following sentence, the pronoun "she" (the cataphor) appears earlier than the noun "Kate" that it refers to. 在下面的句子中，代词“she（她）”这个指后照应词出现在它所代指的名词“Kate（凯特）”之前。 Compare anaphor The meaning of the cataphor is determined or specified by the later expression. In language processing, it appears that the same mechanism serves a central regulatory function in processing anaphors, cataphors, and metaphors. Cataphors are ambiguous words signalling a term that shows up later in the text. Some researchers propose that cataphors trigger an active search during incremental processing. Linguistic terms & linguistic style accentual affricate allophone allophony anaphor contextualize emphatic entailment etymological etymologically etymologist idiomatic inflected language philological philologically polysemy portmanteau word prescriptivism stylistics tautology |
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