Referencing or Subsitution?

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One of the most debatable questions in Language ( according to my teacher anyways), but what is the difference between referencing (anaphoric) and substitution?

PS. The use of a pronoun in referencing is one difference that my teacher talked about, but im still not sure.

TIA

[kayoak]

To my knowledge, anaphoric referencing only refers (hehe) to the substitution of a lexeme with a pronoun that comes after the original, ie. Sally was happy. She had cake to eat.
The other type of referencing, cataphoric, would be in a sentence like 'She was so happy, Sally ate her cake in one gulp.'

I was under the impression that substitution was more of an umbrella term that indicates the replacement of one lexeme with one or more other lexemes, ie. both anaphoric and cataphoric references as well as something like 'Sally the Labrador was hungry. Barking, the dog licked her owner.'

I hope I haven't mixed anything up, but that's what I believe is the difference - if any other forum members would like to correct me, feel free! And good luck for ENL this year

[dmitridr]

To my knowledge, anaphoric referencing only refers (hehe) to the substitution of a lexeme with a pronoun that comes after the original, ie. Sally was happy. She had cake to eat.
The other type of referencing, cataphoric, would be in a sentence like 'She was so happy, Sally ate her cake in one gulp.'

I was under the impression that substitution was more of an umbrella term that indicates the replacement of one lexeme with one or more other lexemes, ie. both anaphoric and cataphoric references as well as something like 'Sally the Labrador was hungry. Barking, the dog licked her owner.'

I hope I haven't mixed anything up, but that's what I believe is the difference - if any other forum members would like to correct me, feel free! And good luck for ENL this year

Yes, I would agree with this. Substitution is different to synonyms and referencing in that substitution replaces whole words with more generic terms that are not generally synonymous to that word. For example, "Do you play tennis on the weekends?" - "Yes I do"

In this case, "do" functions as a substitution of 'play' but can ONLY be understood in that given context!

I hope that helps!