linguistic analysis

American  

noun

1. a 20th-century philosophical movement inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein and marked by close attention paid to the way words are used in order to clarify concepts and to eliminate confusions arising from mystifying preconceptions about language.

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Example Sentences

"I call them Large Language Models, not artificial intelligence because they engage in linguistic analysis and prediction - nothing more," she says.

From BBC

A linguistic analysis in the new study also suggests the Nisga’a/Gitxsan ancestors in the north may have borrowed the word for hazelnut from Salishan ancestors in the south as they were introduced to the nut through trade, at least 7000 years ago.

From Science Magazine

She is also a textualist who subjects every statute to rigorous linguistic analysis, though she will sometimes look to congressional intent, as well.

From Slate

The result of the court’s linguistic analysis is an exiguous textual opinion based on parsing dictionaries instead of a functional understanding even minimally consistent with basic science.

From Slate

A new linguistic analysis suggests that the choice Adams made—substituting in the word “Belgium” at every instance—may unconsciously have reflected a cross-language pattern of using certain consonant sounds to soften “taboo” words.

From Scientific American