{"product_id":"semantic-tectonics-dylan-b-dryer-9781646429516","title":"Semantic Tectonics: Writing Studies, Intersubjectivity, and the End of Solipsism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSemantic Tectonics\u003c\/i\u003e offers an engaging contribution to the ongoing conversation about the alliances of convenience and fissiparous relations among second--language writing, rhetoric, technical and professional communication, composition, and basic writing. From a theoretical perspective, the book brings together insights from a range of important scholars who have advanced relational alternatives to Cartesian dualisms of mind and body, self and other, thought and language. Naming these dualisms \"solipsism,\" the book extends these alternatives into empirical inquiries into the lexicogrammar of contemporary writing studies scholarship, using corpus analytics to bolster, and sometimes challenge, critical-discourse and content--analytic approaches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith frequent pauses to explain and model corpus tools and applications, to pose questions for further inquiry, and to contemplate pedagogical or civic applications, \u003ci\u003eSemantic Tectonics\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the field's social mission is constrained by tacit beliefs about critical concepts like language, self, context, genre, reflection, agency, and development. By foregrounding the empirical study of patterns in language itself, this book inspires readers to shift their perspective to the operational significance of word- and phrase-level discourse as sites for ideological and pedagogical intervention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dylan B. Dryer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646429516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646429516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Utah State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Dylan B. Dryer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50847510855935,"sku":"9781646429516","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/semantic-tectonics-dylan-b-dryer-9781646429516","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}