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 • Nov. 2, 2025

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 • Jun. 8, 2023

There are many other places outside of pure linguistic analysis and mathematics where intuitions are helpful.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

There are, broadly speaking, three categories of corpus linguistic analysis, says Stefan Gries, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

From The Verge • Jun. 7, 2022

According to Greenberg's linguistic analysis, paleo-Indians had crossed over Beringia not once, but thrice.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann