Hey linguists: you know how stage directions, IRC, and text messages have special markers for descriptions of actions, to set them aside from normal dialogue? Like:
*runs and hides*
What's the word for that? And what even is that *kind* of thing? Obviously it has distinct typographical and syntactic structure, but it's also sort of a... Case? Mood?
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@aphyr I don't know how commonly the term is used in English, but https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didaskalia_(theatre) seems to be what you're looking for in the theater context.
