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In addition to beliefs about human nature (psychology) and social relations (sociology), a speech code indicates distinctive beliefs about strategic conduct (rhetoric). This chapter concludes the presentation of three elements of the nanoscience speech code discovered with a discussion of the speech code within the nano community regarding the appropriate role of strategic conduct in the research and development of emerging science and technologies.
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These included one instance of the term “call” and two instances of forms of the expression “use words” (“use the word”).
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Bassett, D.R. (2017). Strategic Conduct in a Code of Science. In: Nanotechnology and Scientific Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95201-4_4
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