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Download full textGouran, Dennis S. – 1981
This paper discusses ways in which the field of speech communication can be advanced. The first half of the paper characterizes the objectivist and subjectivist views of how knowledge is acquired and the forms of inquiry to which these views have led. The remainder of the paper demonstrates the role that the "interesting question" (one for which…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Inquiry, Questioning Techniques
Gouran, Dennis S. – 1978
An example of how the quality of research on small groups could be enhanced is to develop a framework of scholarship around a series of hierarchical guiding questions concerning the functions of communication in the small group, the characteristics of the behavior and of the producers of that behavior that determine the extent to which particular…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Group Discussion, Group Dynamics
