What is setting information?

Definition
	Setting information is a kind of nonevent in discourse that provides locative, temporal and circumstantial information about a sequence of events.

Examples
	It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a shot rang out. (The first sentence contains temporal setting information.) Every tree and blade of grass was dripping, and the road shone like a river. The Pedestrian wasted no time on the landscape, but set out at once... (The first sentence contains circumstantial and locative setting information.)

Sources
	Grimes, J. E. 1975

Context for this page:

Concept module: setting information
In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): S
In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
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