ANAPHORA, CATAPHORA, AND ANTECEDENT 1. Anaphora Anaphora is typically said to be endophora that is to have an antecedent which is a segment of text. Anaphora is a process to introduce the real same entities that turned by antecedent (Yule, 1996:37). Therefore, anaphora is the referent of personal pronoun that has been introduced before. In language technical term, the second utterance or the next utterance is called anaphor, and then the first utterance is called antecedent. Anaphora is used to keep the first referent that has been introduced from several entities. Here, the speaker will use variation utterances. For example: “Martin, would you look at the sun above us. It looks like going down quickly”. The sun as the antecedent and it as an anaphor. Halliday and Hassan (1976), in a lengthy discussion of textual cohesion in English, classify reference into two types: exophora and endophora. When we utter his shirt or your uncle ...