Dialoogiline

Dialoogiline is a term used in linguistics and discourse studies to denote a unit of dialogue that encodes a complete communicative function within a conversation. The term draws from the Dutch word dialoog for dialogue and the suffix -iline, used in some annotation frameworks to label linguistic units.

Dialoogiline is intended to be the smallest segment of dialogue that can function as a single communicative act or as the core of a turn-taking sequence. It typically comprises an initiating utterance by one speaker and any immediate response or actions by conversational partners that complete the intended effect. Boundaries are identified by syntactic completeness, discourse markers, or noticeable prosodic/gestural cues signaling a turn transition.

A dialoogiline can encode speech acts (question, request, offer), stance (attitude, evaluation), and interactional functions (backchannel, repair). Annotations may include speaker role, timestamp, and act classification. Prosody, timing, and nonverbal cues influence its recognition.

It is used in annotation schemes for dialogue corpora, enabling consistent analysis of turn-taking, alignment, and action types. In computational linguistics and dialogue systems, dialoogiline segments can improve intent recognition, response planning, and evaluation of conversational coherence.

The concept emerged in discourse-analytic work in the 2010s as researchers sought finer-grained units than turns or chunks. It remains one of several competing granular units for dialogue annotation.

See also: dialogue act, turn-taking, discourse marker, dialogue annotation.

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