dialoguespecific

Dialoguespecific is an adjective used to describe elements that pertain exclusively to dialogue or conversational interaction, as distinct from narrative or expository text. The term is used across fields to label data, features, or mechanisms that apply only to dialogue contexts. In practice, dialoguespecific elements are those that emerge within conversational exchanges rather than in monologic prose.

In linguistics and discourse studies, dialoguespecific features include turn-taking structures, adjacency pairs, overlap, repair phenomena, and the use of direct speech. It also covers discourse-level phenomena such as speaker alignment, pronoun grounding across turns, and the tagging of dialogue acts or speech acts within a conversation. In corpus linguistics, dialoguespecific annotation layers separate dialogue from other text and mark features such as speaker identity, turn boundaries, and direct speech.

In natural language processing and human-computer interaction, dialoguespecific components inform dialogue management, context tracking across multiple turns, and the generation of contextually appropriate responses. Datasets and annotation schemes described as dialoguespecific aim to capture the dynamics of conversational flow, including interruptions, backchannels, and topic shifts.

In media studies and scriptwriting, dialoguespecific conventions govern the presentation of dialogue, including punctuation, formatting of lines, speaker labels, and the distinction between dialogue and narration.

Form and usage: While the form "dialoguespecific" is common in some style guides, others prefer the hyphenated "dialogue-specific" or the space-separated "dialogue specific." The term remains a coined label rather than a standard field-wide category, used to indicate domain-specific aspects of dialogue. See also dialogue act, turn-taking, adjacency pair, dialogue system, conversation analysis, and direct speech.