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This chapter begins with a brief extract from an interdisciplinary meeting that illustrates some key themes in the book, then moves on to highlight the relative neglect of communication in studies of interdisciplinary research despite a claim by the US National Academies that this lies at the heart of interdisciplinarity. The chapter concludes with an overview of the book.
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Choi, S., Richards, K. (2017). Introduction. In: Interdisciplinary Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47040-9_1
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