scenesetter
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]scenesetter (plural scenesetters)
- One who, or that which, sets the scene.
- 1986, Michael Shaun Rochemont, Focus in Generative Grammar, page 58:
- To be pragmatically determined, it must be the case that the expression does not contribute new information to the structure of the discourse except as an unremarkable scenesetter.