Genre as Semantic Governance A Framework for Meaning Regulation in the Intelligence Age

Keith Shepherd is an independent researcher working at the intersection of language, cognition, and epistemic systems. His work advances a new theoretical and operational framework for genre as semantic infrastructure, with applications in cognitive linguistics, rhetorical analysis, AI alignment, and institutional discourse. Shepherd's contribution centers on Semantic Governance Theory, which reconceives genre as a dynamic system of meaning regulation capable of preserving coherence across communicative domains. He is the originator of Micro-Genre Theory and the architect of a taxonomically grounded model for tracking, auditing, and generating field-aligned meaning.