Caractéristiques sociosémantiques des méthodes conventionnelles et alternatives de délibération

• Main Authors: François P. Robert, Pierre Mongeau
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université du Québec à Montréal 2014-12-01
• Series: Communiquer
• Subjects: deliberation; social networks; sociosemantic networks; centrality; discourse similitude; method
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/communiquer/1236

This research aims to characterize types of deliberation method (conventional and alternative) by the similarity of speech in relation with the social network. A total of 95 people were gathered for an experiment where we measured their degree of centrality, betweenness and closeness in the social network, and their centrality in the sociosemantic network. Results indicate that measures of social centralities and sociosemantic centrality are related during the experiment. Specifically, the conventional deliberation method fosters the emergence of the link between social centrality and sociosemantic centrality, while the alternative method led to the emergence of a negative relationship between these measures. Thus, the conventional deliberation setting seems to favor the emergence of convergence around what central people are saying while the alternative setting appears to support the expression of a different speech.