Recursive Semantics: Language, Metaphor, Irony and Meaning through the Unified Fractal Field Theory

Recursive Semantics: Language, Metaphor, Irony and Meaning through the Unified Fractal Field Theory, is a rigorous scientific exposition that redefines language as a recursive phenomenon governed not by linear syntax or modular logic, but by self-similar attractor fields operating across multiple cognitive scales. Drawing from the Unified Fractal Field Theory (UFFT), this work presents language as a temporal-spatial convergence system wherein meaning arises through the phase alignment of recursive oscillatory structures across the brain and its extended semantic environment.
Beginning with the neurophysiological basis of recursive oscillations, Chapter 1 introduces language as a phase-locked dynamical system. Syllables, words, phrases, and discourse are shown to correspond to distinct but nested frequency bands, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma, each forming a recursive field of activation whose alignment constitutes the minimal condition for linguistic fluency and coherence. Subsequent chapters trace these recursive structures through the domains of syntax, semantic memory, inner speech, and clause embedding, supported by novel mathematical models and attractor geometry.
The book’s middle chapters focus on high-order semantic phenomena, metaphor and irony. Metaphor is formalised as recursive field projection and attractor blending between source and target domains, producing new convergence zones in semantic space. Irony is described as recursive phase inversion, wherein the listener resolves the tension between surface meaning and contextual contradiction by recursively traversing multi-layer attractor pathways. These mechanisms are not stylistic embellishments; they are recursive field operations at the core of human cognition.
The later chapters expand the scope from individual cognition to cultural field propagation, showing how language serves as a recursive navigation system for identity formation, worldview construction, and shared conceptual memory. Grammar is interpreted as a fractal scaffold for field regulation. Disorders such as aphasia, schizophrenia, and semantic saturation are reframed as recursive breakdowns or attractor overloads, and therapeutic re-entrainment is proposed as a means of restoring field coherence.
Throughout, the book makes use of field diagrams, attractor models, and mathematical constructs to visualise recursive phenomena in real cognitive time. Meaning is treated not as a property of words or symbols, but as a product of recursive field alignment across domains of perception, memory, emotion, and communication.
Recursive Semantics is not only a contribution to linguistics and cognitive science; it is a foundational philosophical and scientific reorientation of what it means to understand, to express, and to think. It offers a unifying architecture for syntax, metaphor, irony, identity, and meaning, constructed entirely from the mathematics and dynamics of recursive semantic fields.