ABSTRACT
The sociologist would note the effect on social groups if language patterns differed from the accepted standards. An illustration of the value of the social structure model in diagnosis and therapy is observable in the reactions of groups to speech and language idiosyncracies and abnormalities. Man and his evolution in all aspects is the subject of anthropology inasmuch as it concerns itself with the physical characteristics of human beings as well as with all human activities such as tool making, building, art, customs and beliefs, that is, their culture patterns, of which language is one. The body of knowledge concerned with these should, therefore, be referred to as the science of Rhememes, instead of the misnomer speech therapy. The child psychologist pays particular attention to the development of the faculty of language in relation to the growth of other capacities such as thinking, feeling and learning.
