The paper examines the main principles of dialogue and specific characteristics of the principal speech categories participating in text organisation of ancient Greek novels. In the text of ancient Greek novels, dialogue is based on the patterns of dialogic speech used in preceding genres of ancient literature. However, it is a more complex modification of speech communication. As a result of the analysis of various forms of the dialogue and dialogic speech in ancient Greek novels, the author comes to the conclusion that, in addition to the dialogues of a classical structure with a traditional interchange of cues between two or more characters, there are also dialogues of a different kind in ancient Greek novels, where speech interrelations imply more complex communicative processes. It should be also noted that in those parts of the narration which are characterised by a higher degree of rhetorical treatment, the dialogic speech is simpler in comparison to those parts of the text where the narration is developed with the participation of characters of minor importance.
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