Thursday, 4 June 2020

Exophoric Demonstrative Reference Exemplified

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 629):
exophoric
||| Here, I’ll help with this one. ||| 
||| Yes, Dad, but we mustn’t even lean on this guitar today. ||| 
||| We could move that table. ||| 
||| It wouldn’t matter to him really; || he’s half deaf after all these years working at this place. ||| 
||| I’ve been eating like this for the last ten years || and nothing happens. ||| 
||| What is that? ||| Hmm, Hungarian pastry. |||