Auditory Grammar: A Six-Mode Compositional Framework for Sound-as-Narrative Structure in Screenwriting

This paper introduces the Auditory Grammar (AG) Framework, a six-mode compositional system for deploying sound as structural narrative grammar within screenwriting. Unlike existing analytical models that describe sound's role in completed films (Chion, 1990; Murch, 1995), the AG Framework is prescriptive and deployable - providing screenwriters, directors, and sound designers with a codified grammar for composing sound-driven narrative at the script stage, before production begins. The framework comprises six operational modes: Mode 01 (The Ghost Voice), Mode 02 (The Metric Vacuum), Mode 03 (The Sedan Sequence), Mode 04 (Recursive Architecture), Mode 05 (The Living Mimic), and Mode 06 (The Broadcast). The paper establishes deployment rules, demonstrates the framework through case study analysis of critically acclaimed films, and proposes the AG Framework as the first codified compositional grammar for sound-as-narrative in the screenwriting discipline.