Discussion around the cabinet table increasingly took the form of prime ministerial monologues.
Commentators have also questioned our downplaying of "other modeling" in ordinary conversation and our claims about the nature of the difference between monologue and dialogue.
Each piece, under the weight of long narrative monologues, seems at this stage to have been pressed into the shape of an exclusively literary object.
Language teaching materials tend to concentrate on monologues or dialogues where turn-taking is structured and predictable, with some kind of transactional goal.
Dramatic speech, in monologues and declamations, was sometimes rhetorical to a degree which may seem artificial to modern audiences.
But monologue can also be about restricted topics, and yet all indications suggest it is much less repetitive and routinization is much less common.
Students listening to a scripted monologue outperformed those listening to an unscripted discussion of the same content.
Indeed, they have commonly assumed that dialogue simply involves chunks of monologue stuck together.
