Varieties of Dialogue by Number: Experimental overview by number of perspectives represented

Experimental overview by number of perspectives represented

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Varieties of Dialogue by Number

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Left hand column in table below indicates number of perspectives in a meeting. For example a 6-log is a "dialogue" involving presentation of six perspectives (possibly by six persons) acting as a single system or pattern. Clicking there (left-most column) will give a very tentative explanation of the nature of such a dialogue. In this particular example, other columns for the 6-log row then indicate different ways in which a six person interaction might be composed by sub-systems or sub-patterns. For example the 6-log might effectively be two 3-perspective exchanges  (2x3-log), or three 2-perspective exchanges (3x2-log), or six 1-perspective exchanges (6x1-log). This table does not cover the additive cases where a 6 person presentation might, for example, be  made up of a 2-perspective interaction and a 4-perspective interaction. The notion of "patterns of conversation" as an N-logue is derived from Anthony Blake (N-logue: patterns of dialogue according to number). See also Varieties of Dialogue Arenas and Styles, 1992.
 

Varieties of Dialogue by Number
1x	2x	3x	4x	5x	6x	7x	8x	9x
1-log
2-log	2x(1-log)
3-log		3x(l-log)
4-log	2x(2-log)		4x(l-log)
5-log				5x(1-log)
6-log	2x(3-log)	3x(2-log)			6x(1-log)
7-log						7x(1-log)
8-log	2x(4-log)		4x(2-log)				8x(1-log)
9-log		3x(3-log)						9x(1-log)
10-log	2x(5-log)			5x(2-log)
11-log
12-log	2x(6-log)	3x(4-log)	4x(3-log)		6x(2-log)
13-log
14-log	2x(7-log)					7x(2-log)
15-log		3x(5-log)		5x(3-log)
16-log	2x(8-log)		4x(4-log)				8x(2-log)
17-log
18-log	2x(9-log)	3x(6-log)			6x(3-log)			9x(2-log)
19-log
20-log	2x(10-log)		4x(5-log)	5x(4-log)
21-log		3x(7-log)				7x(3-log)

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