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11. Ethnolinguistic Analysis

Focus: Examines the relationship between language and culture, particularly how language reflects and influences cultural practices, beliefs, and identity.

Methods: Studying linguistic relativity (how language shapes thought), analyzing culturally specific vocabulary (e.g., kinship terms, color terms), and investigating language and ritual.

12. Computational Linguistic Analysis

Focus: Applies computational methods to analyze and process language data, often for tasks like natural language processing (NLP) and machine translation.

Methods: Parsing algorithms, machine learning models for text classification, sentiment analysis, and neural network-based language models (e.g., GPT).

13. Typological Analysis

Focus: Compares languages based on their structural features to categorize them into different types or typologies (e.g., word order, morphological type).

Methods: Cross-linguistic comparisons, identifying language universals, and classifying languages based on typological features (e.g., agglutinative, fusional, isolating).

14. Cognitive Linguistic Analysis

Focus: Investigates how language is grounded in human cognition, particularly how language reflects conceptual structures like metaphor, categorization, and mental imagery.

Methods: Analyzing conceptual metaphors (e.g., time as a resource), studying frames and mental spaces in discourse, and examining the embodiment of language in sensory and motor experiences.

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.