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== Humanities and social sciences ==

===Linguistics===
{{See also|Linguistics}}
[[Linguistics]] explores individual languages and [[language]] in general. It breaks language down and analyses its component parts: [[theoretical linguistics|theory]], [[phonology|sounds and their meaning]], [[pragmatics|utterance usage]], [[morphology (linguistics)|word origins]], the [[etymology|history of words]], the meaning of [[lexical semantics|words]] and [[phraseology|word combinations]], [[syntax|sentence construction]], [[discourse analysis|basic construction beyond the sentence level]], [[stylistics (linguistics)|stylistics]], and [[conversation analysis|conversation]]. It examines the above using [[computational linguistics|statistics and modeling]], and [[semantic analysis (linguistics)|semantics]]. It analyses language in context of [[anthropological linguistics|anthropology]], [[biolinguistics|biology]], [[evolutionary linguistics|evolution]], [[language geography|geography]], [[historical linguistics|history]], [[neurolinguistics|neurology]], [[psycholinguistics|psychology]], and [[sociolinguistics|sociology]]. It also takes the [[applied linguistics|applied]] approach, looking at [[developmental linguistics|individual language development]] and [[clinical linguistics|clinical]] issues.

===Literature===
[[Literary criticism]] is the analysis of [[literature]]. The focus can be as diverse as the analysis of [[analysis (Homer)|Homer]] or [[psychoanalytic literary criticism|Freud]]. While not all literary-critical methods are primarily analytical in nature, the main approach to the teaching of literature in the west since the mid-twentieth century, literary formal analysis or close reading, is. This method, rooted in the academic movement labelled [[The New Criticism]], approaches texts – chiefly short poems such as [[sonnets]], which by virtue of their small size and significant complexity lend themselves well to this type of analysis – as units of discourse that can be understood in themselves, without reference to biographical or historical frameworks. This method of analysis breaks up the text linguistically in a study of [[prosody (linguistics)|prosody]] (the formal analysis of meter) and phonic effects such as [[alliteration]] and [[rhyme]], and cognitively in examination of the interplay of syntactic structures, figurative language, and other elements of the poem that work to produce its larger effects.

===Music===
* [[Musical analysis]]&nbsp;– a process attempting to answer the question "How does this music work?"
**Musical Analysis is a study of how the composers use the notes together to compose music. Those studying music will find differences with each composer's musical analysis, which differs depending on the culture and history of music studied. An analysis of music is meant to simplify the music for you.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Warfield|first=Scott|date=November 2014|title=Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical. By bruce d. mcclung. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. - Oklahoma!: The Making of an American Musical. By Tim Carter. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. - South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten. By Jim Lovensheimer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. - Wicked: A Musical Biography. By Paul R. Laird. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011.|journal=Journal of the Society for American Music|volume=8|issue=4|pages=587–596|doi=10.1017/s1752196314000443|s2cid=232401945|issn=1752-1963}}</ref> 
* [[Schenkerian analysis]]
**Schenkerian analysis is a collection of music analysis that focuses on the production of the graphic representation. This includes both analytical procedure as well as the notational style.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Neumeyer |first1=David |title=Guide to Schenkerian Analysis |date=November 2018 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2152/70263 |doi=10.15781/T2D21S443|publisher=The University of Texas at Austin; University of Texas Libraries|hdl=2152/70263 }}</ref> Simply put, it analyzes tonal music which includes all chords and tones within a composition.<ref name=":0" />

===Philosophy===
* [[Philosophical analysis]]&nbsp;– a general term for the techniques used by philosophers
**Philosophical analysis refers to the clarification and composition of words put together and the entailed meaning behind them.<ref name=":1" /> Philosophical analysis dives deeper into the meaning of words and seeks to clarify that meaning by contrasting the various definitions. It is the study of reality, justification of claims, and the analysis of various concepts. Branches of philosophy include logic, justification, metaphysics, values and ethics.  If questions can be answered empirically, meaning it can be answered by using the senses, then it is not considered philosophical. Non-philosophical questions also include events that happened in the past, or questions science or mathematics can answer.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Hospers|first=John|date=2013-04-15|title=An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis|doi=10.4324/9780203714454|isbn=9780203714454}}</ref>
* ''[[Analysis (journal)|Analysis]]'' is the name of a prominent journal in philosophy.