The national endowment for the humanities helps keep basic humanities research that helps us live our lives better than without. One thing that they do is pragmatics, which is the study of how situation factors affect meaning.

Nothing’s stopping companies from funding basic research in the humanities… but in my experience it’s not a priority, and they don’t. And that’s a real pity, because basic humanities research has a tendency of suddenly being vitally needed in other fields.

They also do research about discourse analysis, which is the study of how people conversed. This is important because it’s not something that is straight forward and the better you can do it, the more connections you make and the better you can convey information.
Pragmatics, or the study of how situational factors affect meaning, is one of the more esoteric sub-disciplines in linguistics–many linguistics departments don’t even teach it as a core course. But one of the keynotes at the 2016 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference was about it (in NLP, conferences are the premier publication venue, so that’s a pretty big deal).
~Rachael Tatman

Key Takeaways:

1
Funding lacks for studies and research in the humanities.
2
Ethics has become a replacement. However, the humanities are directly related to ethics.
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National Humanities Alliance continues to fight for the humanities in our schools because they scaffold off of one another.

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