Jeremiah, Dramatic Dialogue, and "Conjugating" the Gospel

A perhaps surprising amount of Holy Scripture is presented in terms of a dialogue where the identification of the different speakers is important to proper interpretation. And yet, biblical text does not provide us the modern printing conventions we are used to for dialogues, such as naming the speaker before the speech and clearly breaking up the speeches so we know where one ends and the next begins. Why is Scripture presented this way, and how does the form of Scripture belong to its messa...