Text conceptions and intersubjectivity in children's storytellers

Within the context of linguistic anthropology and folklore, there are different text models that converge in pointing out a dual-dimensionality in narrative activity (Bauman, 1986; Young, 1984; Butler, 1992). These models provide analytical categories that allow us to identify different planes, elements and structures in the discourse. These orientations may be part of the speaker's repertories, be strategically manipulated, and be the product of different social and ideological conditions surrounding discourse (Briggs and Bauman, 1992). In this context, a theoretically relevant element is identifying which conceptions about intersubjectivity (Cross-ley, 1996) are constituted in the interrelationship between these two planes of narrative discourse. In this paper, we examine storytellers' ideologies and performances through the relationship between text conceptions and intersubjective structures present in storytellers' discourses about their narrative work. The goal of the analysis is to explore the role that is attributed to the audience as participants in literature socialisation practices (Poveda, 2003).