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<p>Dialogue is a written or spoken <a href="/facts/Conversation/GNKD6xb3">conversational</a> exchange between two or more people, and a <a href="/facts/Literature/CmUDxokU">literary</a> and <a href="/facts/Theatrical/Tq0mvBI8">theatrical</a> form that depicts such an exchange. As a <a href="/facts/Philosophy/zAH5PVD6">philosophical</a> or <a href="/facts/Didactic/jBYIFLrr">didactic</a> device, it is chiefly associated in the West with the <a href="/facts/Socratic_dialogue/01aDBj6Y">Socratic dialogue</a> as developed by <a href="/facts/Plato/sPedMo74">Plato</a>, but antecedents are also found in other traditions including <a href="/facts/Indian_literature/ReJFmjHS">Indian literature</a>. </p>