This paper focuses on the process whereby speakers position themselves in jointly produced conversations. The expected degree of dominancy (degree of power realization) in the dialogues is derived by the independent variable of the role of a participant – a leader or a follower – in a Map Task setting. We examine the participants’ dominancy as reflected by a set of structural and lexical features. We then observe how the features are realized in four sex pairings: a female-leader with a female-follower (FF); a female-leader with a male-follower (FM); a male-leader with a male-follower (MM); a male-leader with a female-follower (MF). Since each pair of speakers participated twice, we also compare between the first and second sessions. Analysis of the power relations reveals that neither experience (first versus second sessions) nor sex-pairing affect the power relations as much as the role of the participants; also, we found evidence that females are more prominent when they have a male as their counterpart.

本文重点讨论演讲者在共同制作的对话中定位自己的过程。对话中预期的支配地位（权力实现的程度）是根据“地图任务”设置中参与者（领导者或跟随者）角色的自变量得出的。我们通过一系列结构和词汇特征来检验参与者的主导地位。然后，我们观察到如何在四个性别对中实现这些功能：女性领导者与女性跟随者（FF）；具有男性跟随者（FM）的女性领导者；具有男性跟随者（MM）的男性领导者；男性领导者，女性跟随者（MF）。由于每对演讲者都参加了两次，因此我们也比较了第一届和第二届会议。对权力关系的分析表明，经验（第一节和第二节）和性别配对对权力关系的影响都没有参与者的作用那么大。同样，我们发现有证据表明，当女性与男性相对时，女性更为突出。