Defense, Self, and Speech: From Biological Vectors to Linguistic Form — Paper II: Is Compensatory-Defensive Speech Computable?

This working paper is the second paper in the series Defense, Self, and Speech: From Biological Vectors to Linguistic Form. Paper II asks whether compensatory-defensive speech can be formalized in a way that makes it partially computable. It argues that this is possible through two coupled axes: a finite operational basis of speech-level operations organized by biological defensive vectors, and a (P, T, M) latent-space architecture describing prior dominance, threat-channel precision bias, and meta-inference depth. The paper develops the methodological warrant for ontology-bounded classification of compensatory-defensive speech. It distinguishes operations from templates and regimes, defines first-order defensive operations and META operations, explains how operations compose across utterances and contexts, and proposes an ecological/compensatory discriminator based on proportionality, reversibility, and contact-preservation. This paper is theoretical and methodological. It does not present an empirical validation study, a clinical diagnostic instrument, or a finalized computational engine. Subsequent papers in the series develop the engine, trajectory modeling, empirical corpus work, and applications to human and machine dialogue.