INTERSUBJETIVIDAD Y CONSENSO EN EL DIÁLOGO: ANÁLISIS DE UN EPISODIO DE TRABAJO EN GRUPO ESTUDIANTIL.

The focus of this paper concerns the mechanisms and resources by means of which consensus is sought and established in multi-party conversation. The data used for analysis is a 66-second long episode taken from an event in which four students constituting a study group get together for task-solving purposes (the event is part of the GRUPES corpus, project FONDECYT/CHILE 1060566). Two strands belonging to two different planes of linguistic-discursive analysis were considered: argumentation structure and management, on the one hand (discursive-pragmatic plane), and intersubjectivity management, on the other (interactional plane). The results show that these two types of management are simultaneous and partly interwoven but clearly distinct and separable. Most important is the finding that no consensus can arise among participants unless an acceptance move (discursive- pragmatic plane) is supported by the signalling of maximally confirmed intersubjectivity (interactional plane). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]