Temporal Development of Pragmatics and Dynamics in Conversation for Consensus Building

Abstract

We studied the process of information integration through observing the pragmatics and the dynamics of conversations between two people toward a consensus. We analyzed the conversations from both the pragmatics and the dynamics side. From the pragmatic perspective, the temporal development of pragmatics regarding their consensus was analyzed using conversational analysis and subjective evaluation. On the other hand, from the dynamical perspective, the temporal development of response time of utterance was analyzed using correlation analysis. As results, their typical developments as follows were clarified. The stages in pragmatics regarding a consensus were taking turns alternately toward a consensus. The subjective evaluated values on consensus increased toward the end of the conversation. The response times between two people were synchronized toward a consensus. These results indicate that both pragmatics and dynamics side have features of synchronization. It is suggested this feature plays typical feature for consensus building in this experiment.