TY - BOOK ID - 77933181 TI - Features of naturalness in conversation PY - 2006 VL - .152 SN - 1282154974 9786612154973 902729285X 9789027292858 9027253951 9789027253958 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia J. Benjamins DB - UniCat KW - Conversation analysis. KW - Discourse analysis. KW - Naturalness (Linguistics) KW - Natural class (Linguistics) KW - Linguistics KW - Discourse grammar KW - Text grammar KW - Semantics KW - Semiotics KW - Analysis of conversation KW - CA (Interpersonal communication) KW - Conversational analysis KW - Oral communication KW - Conversation analysis KW - Discourse analysis KW - Analyse de la conversation KW - Analyse du discours KW - NaturaliteĢ (Linguistique) KW - Pragmatics KW - Naturalness (Linguistics). UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77933181 AB - The study describes a detailed and original piece of research work, investigating a very important genre of human communication, and that is conversation. It provides a definition of the genre of conversation by describing nine features of conversation, namely multiple sources, discourse coherence, language as doing, co-operation, unfolding, open-endedness, artifacts, inexplicitness and shared responsibility. These nine features of naturalness in conversation serve to distinguish conversation from specialized discourse types. The study illustrates the nine defining features of conversation with authentic conversational data collected surreptitiously in England. While this study is of native speakers of English, the nine defining features of naturalness of English conversation are applicable to conversations conducted in other languages. ER -