to another contextual entity, anaphora is present.

In a second, narrower sense, the term anaphora denotes the act of referring backwards in a dialog or text, such as referring to the left when an anaphor points to its left toward its antecedent in languages that are written from left to right. Etymologically, anaphora derives from Ancient Greek ??????? (, ), from ??? (, ) + ???? (, ). In this narrow sense, anaphora stands in contrast to cataphora,