Publications

Publication details [#31973]

Sovran, Tamar. 1992. Between similarity and sameness. Journal of Pragmatics 18 (4) : 329–344.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | labeling | naming1 | philosophy | psycholinguistics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper deals with the puzzling nature of the concept of similarity, which is demonstrated to be rooted in the peculiar cognitive function of adding to the basic discrete nature of the processes of labeling, recognizing and naming.