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The 33 pages that link to Dialogue, each with the reason it gives.
Voice-overCompared with: Dialogue usually belongs to the depicted scene, unlike narration laid over it.
CharacterizationRelated: Word choice, rhythm, and evasions can expose personality and motive.
LibrettoRelated: Dialogue supplies the libretto’s spoken passages, especially in works with spoken scenes.
New JournalismRelated: Reported speech helps New Journalism convey character and action, while raising questions about exact wording.
Interfaith dialogueNarrower topic: Interfaith dialogue adapts this broader practice to religious differences.
SubtextRelated: Dialogue gives subtext a surface of explicit words to work against.
Literary journalismRelated: Quoted speech can reveal character, but literary journalists must distinguish remembered wording from exact transcripts.
MonologueCompared with: A monologue suspends the exchange that defines dialogue.
Speech balloonRelated: Speech balloons divide dialogue into attributable turns and place them in the scene.
Critical pedagogyRelated: Freirean teaching uses dialogue to replace one-way transmission with shared inquiry.
Paulo FreireRelated: Freire treated dialogue as necessary for learning and humanization.
SoliloquyCompared with: Unlike a soliloquy, dialogue makes speech part of an exchange between characters.
Sound effectCompared with: Dialogue conveys speech, while effects usually represent nonverbal actions, objects, or spaces.
SoundtrackRelated: Dialogue is a central recorded element in most film soundtracks.
Historical dramaRelated: Dialogue conveys period-specific language while making historical arguments immediate.
NarrationCompared with: Dialogue presents characters’ exchanges directly, unlike narration that reports or frames events.
Environmental storytellingCompared with: Character speech can explain events that environmental details leave implicit.
Hans-Georg GadamerRelated: Gadamer models interpretation on dialogue that allows the subject matter to challenge assumptions.
Baldassare CastiglioneRelated: Castiglione uses conversation among court figures to stage competing views of ideal conduct.
Martin BuberRelated: Buber treats genuine dialogue as an encounter, not merely the exchange of information.
ThespisNarrower topic: Separating one speaker from the chorus made dramatic exchange possible.
Éric RohmerRelated: His characters’ arguments and explanations often generate the film’s central action.
Exposition (narrative)Related: Characters can reveal shared history or circumstances through what they say to one another.
Paddy ChayefskyRelated: Chayefsky’s fast, overlapping conversations give his characters distinctive voices and expose their tensions.
Cormac McCarthyRelated: His sparse dialogue often leaves ethical and philosophical conflicts unresolved.
RhinocerosRelated: Circular arguments and strained explanations show language failing to contain the crisis.
Creative writingRelated: Dialogue reveals relationships and advances scenes through speech.
English punctuationRelated: Dialogue conventions use quotation marks, commas, and paragraph breaks to track speakers.
Job (biblical figure)Related: Job’s friends and Job present competing explanations through extended speeches.
Laura PerlsRelated: Gestalt therapy treats genuine therapist-client encounter as part of the therapeutic process.
Parvin E'tesamiRelated: Alternating voices let her stage moral disputes instead of merely stating conclusions.
Fictional languageRelated: Invented speech can mark identity, intimacy, conflict, or distance between characters.
Slice of lifeRelated: Casual conversation often conveys relationships and tensions without overt exposition.