From Noise to Meaning: A Fluctuational Theory of Language

Structural linguistics, following Saussure, has defined language as a system of differences. This view, while foundational, reduces language to stable oppositions and fails to explain how new meanings arise. This paper proposes an alternative: language as the fluctuation of relations where noise is not the absence of meaning but the condition of its emergence. Rather than treating ambiguity and misreading as errors, they are regarded as the creative force of linguistic innovation.