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In Features of naturalness in conversation, Martin Warren aims to define conversation by means of a description of nine compulsory features that set conversation apart from other types of spoken discourse. Consisting of multiple sources, determination of discourse coherence, language as doing, cooperation, unfolding, open-endedness, artifacts, inexplicitness, and shared responsibility, these nine features are based in part on John Sinclair's (lecture at the University of Malaya, 1983) seven "discourse principles." All of Sinclair's principles are...