This investigation compares the surface differences in the construction and co-construction of narratives of personal experience, in relation to the factors of sex and socioeconomic group in speakers of Santiago, Chile. From a sample of 90 narratives, firstly the orientation resources and the lexical resources of evaluation employed in the construction of the individual narratives of personal experience are compared to the co-constructed narratives and, then, the sensitivity to variation of such resources are studied when associated to sex and socioeconomic group variables. The results state that there is variation in