Description: The examination of casual conversation proceeds as the title indicates from description rnto pedagogy. However, the discussion is contextualised in the first chapter where the rncharacteristics of conversation are identified and explored by comparing three types rnof responses to the same event. Immediately the reader is presented with recognisable rnexamples that help to concretise the discussion, which necessarily involves a detailed rncomparative analysis of transcripts in order to demonstrate the nature and function of rnconversation. Based on this initial analysis of authentic data, a definition is presented rnwhich states that: rnConversation is the informed, interactive talk between two or more people, rnwhich happens in real time, is spontaneous, has a largely interpersonal rnfunction, and in which participants share symmetrical rights