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7. Sociolinguistic Analysis

Focus: Examines the relationship between language and society, including how language varies and changes in different social contexts.

Methods: Studying language variation and change (e.g., dialectology), analyzing code-switching, investigating language and identity, and examining language policies and planning.

8. Historical Linguistic Analysis

Focus: Investigates the development and evolution of languages over time, including the study of language families and the processes of language change.

Methods: Comparative method (comparing cognates across languages to reconstruct proto-languages), internal reconstruction, and analysis of language contact and borrowing.

9. Psycholinguistic Analysis

Focus: Studies the cognitive processes involved in language acquisition, production, and comprehension.

Methods: Experiments on language processing, analysis of speech errors, studying language development in children, and investigating language disorders (aphasia, dyslexia).

10. Corpus Linguistic Analysis

Focus: Analyzes language use by studying large, structured collections of texts (corpora) to identify patterns and trends in language.

Methods: Frequency analysis, concordance analysis (examining how words are used in context), collocation analysis (studying word co-occurrence), and keyword analysis.

These methods, often used in combination, provide a comprehensive resource for analyzing languages from multiple perspectives, contributing to our understanding of how languages function, evolve, and influence human communication so as to create an effective universal language.