See dialogue tag on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2004, Leslie Wainger, Writing a Romance Novel For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons:",
"text": "A dialogue tag has to indicate sound",
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"text": "An alternative style forsakes italics altogether and assigns a dialogue tag: This is going nowhere, he thought.",
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"ref": "2015, Kris James with Laura E. Koons and Stefanie Spangler Buswell, Beyond the Style Manual: Bundle #1, Red Adept Publishing:",
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