Linguistic creativity is a marriage of form and content in which each works together to convey our meanings with concision, resonance and wit. Though form clearly influences and shapes our content, the most deft formal trickery cannot compensate for a lack of real insight. Before computers can be truly creative with language, we must first imbue them with the ability to formulate meanings that ...

Abstract Fundamentally, meaning is organized along two dimensions, similarity and contiguity, corresponding to areas of the brain primarily responsible for language processing, Wernicke’s area Broca’s area, respectively. Modern culture has tended overemphasize dimension through money/commodification in capitalism, mathematics science, with disastrous ecological consequences. Ecostylistics can c...

Apparatus theory (a hybrid of McLuhan and Derrida) hypothesizes that a civilization electracy (the digital apparatus) must learn how to thrive in lifeworld which the visceral faculty appetite is hegemonic. The dominant axis behavior today fantasy-anxiety (attraction/repulsion). We propose world theming has created vernacular discourse may be raised second power expression as vehicle intelligenc...