Hello, everything that is connected to quantitative linguistics is very hot these days, spanning from various corpora to stylometry, authorship attribution, etc. It depends on what you focus on in linguistics in general.
This is due to the relevance of the problems of applied linguistics: first of all, you should study the practical application of theories in your language. For example, the construction of a dialect corpus of the Uzbek language still remains relevant in our applied linguistics.
I work studies around de semiotics, specially Ch. S. Pierce. Art, culture and criminology. The pragmatic is important and I work analytics phenomena in theory of relevance, inference and logic deduction.
Thanks a lot. After Adhd, I submitted a new proposal based on AI and offered to conduct research based on the Chat GPT, but they rejected it and told me to design a curriculum and syllabus design.
Cognitive linguistics can be of a great deal with regards to its current demands in the field of applied linguistics. Sub categories of Politeness in linguistics, constructructional grammar and consturals, metaphor and metonmy, language sexism, etc. can be emphasised under the umbrella of Cognition in language.