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dialogue

Also known as dialog

thumb|right|200px|A dialogue amongst participants in a 1972 cross-cultural youth convention Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is an interactive communication between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a 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.

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Dialogue is a back-and-forth conversation between two or more people, and it's also a literary form used in books and plays to show such exchanges. It matters because it has been used for centuries as a powerful way to explore ideas and teach concepts, most famously in the philosophical dialogues that Plato wrote featuring the character Socrates.

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Etymology
As genre
Antiquity
Japan
Modern period
As topic
As practice
Egalitarian dialogue
Structured dialogue
Dialogical leadership
Moral dialogues
See also
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==Etymology== thumb|right|Frontispiece and title page of Galileo Galilei|Galileo's [[Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, 1632]] thumb|John Kerry listens to a Questionof reporter Matt Lee,after giving remarks onWorld Press Freedom Day(3rd May 2016). The term dialogue stems from the Greek (, ); its roots are (, ) and (, ). The first extant author who uses the term is Plato, in whose works it is closely associated with the art of dialectic. Latin took over the word as .