discoursebound
Discoursebound is a term used in linguistics and related fields to describe linguistic expressions, interpretations, or data whose meaning or reference is constrained by the surrounding discourse. In this usage, an element is considered discoursebound if its interpretation depends on information that precedes or accompanies the current utterance, such as topic, focus, or prior referents within the conversation.
The term blends discourse with bound, signaling that the interpretive scope of certain forms is not fixed
In linguistics, discoursebound phenomena help explain why identical forms can have different references across contexts. Examples
In computational linguistics and natural language processing, discoursebound concepts inform modeling approaches to dialogue systems and
See also: anaphora, deixis, discourse coherence, coreference resolution, reference tracking.