a branch of semantics holding that the meaning of utterances, particularly their truth value, must be understood by considering not only the correspondence of the utterance to what is actually the case in the world but also the situation in which the utterance is made. A major implication of this notion is that truth is situational and that language expresses primarily situations rather than transituational facts. This view is related to social constructionism, postmodernism, and some species of feminism.