What is "anaphoric"

Usage examples of "anaphoric".

Then we also implement the word-order seen in Cirion's Oath, with the demonstrative following rather than preceding the noun it connects with: In the entry TA in the Etym, Tolkien actually described tana an anaphoric word for "that", meaning that it refers back to something already mentioned.

Manchester was unbelievable and Malvern talked so rapidly, and with so many complex buried sub-clauses and anaphoric references extending sentences back into the conversation, that Tennys had trouble understanding anything he said at all.