Scenesetter

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who, or that which, sets the scene.

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From scene + setter.

Related phrases

set scene

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