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The proposal for the analysis of a social conversation aims to demonstrate the linguistic and communicative richness that an elderly couple of a low sociocultural level has, that is, humble people, with little education, only primary school. In the analyzed conversation, the theories and rules for conversational analysis proposed by renowned linguists, philosophers and communication scientists such as Peter Trudgill (1978), Verderber (200), Berlo (1980), Kent Bach & Robert Harnish (1979), Herbert Grice, Harvey Sacks, Emmanuel Schegloff & Gail Jefferson (1974), Lars Andersson (1990) are applied. and Teun van Dijk. The complete conversation is presented so that the registers, the linguistic richness, the elements of communication, the characteristics of the conversational rules, the principles or maxims of Grice can be appreciated, of which only the maxim of quality and the of Bach and Harnish, it can be seen that it complies with that of morality, and sometimes with that of civility, a system of dramatic transcription; In the turn assignment model, only two elements of the topic in the conversation are met, it is observed that there is a mixture in the structure of the discourse; Few discourse markers were used and expletives predominated in the use of swear words or blasphemies.