Editing Dialogue (section)

{{short description|Conversation between two or more people}}
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{{for-multi|use in literature|Dialogue in writing||Dialogue (disambiguation)}}
[[File:Conversation about Cross-Cultural Youth Convention, 1972 (16432965096).jpg|thumb|right|200px|A conversation amongst participants in a 1972 cross-cultural youth convention]]
'''Dialogue''' (sometimes spelled '''dialog''' in [[American and British English spelling differences|American English]])<ref>{{multiref | {{cite web |url=https://www.oed.com/dictionary/dialogue_n |title=dialogue (n)|website=[[Oxford English Dictionary]] |access-date=1 September 2024}} | {{cite web |url=https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=dialog |title=dialog (n & v) |website=[[American Heritage Dictionary]] |access-date=1 September 2024}} }}</ref> is a written or spoken [[conversation]]al exchange between two or more people, and a [[literature|literary]] and [[theatrical]] form that depicts such an exchange. As a [[philosophy|philosophical]] or [[didactic]] device, it is chiefly associated in the West with the [[Socratic dialogue]] as developed by [[Plato]], but antecedents are also found in other traditions including [[Indian literature]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples|page=189 |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0824800788|isbn=978-0824800789 |first=Hajime |last=Nakamura |year=1964|publisher=University of Hawaii Press }}</ref>