The Relevance of Speech Communication to Sociometry

Alton Barbour

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Sociometry, Speech

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Sociometry is the science of the measurement of group structures based on sentiment. Speech communication is a discipline in the behavioral sciences which concerns itself with the most human of all human activities, spoken interaction. Do these two areas have any significant relationship to one another? Is there anything of importance which might be gained by looking for such relationships? As an individual with interests in both areas, I believe that each has something of importance to say to the other.

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